This is a lot of two very rare items. The first is a 1.25" real photo button with spring pin holding black mourning ribbon and with button reading "We Mourn Our Loss/Isidor Straus." He was a Jewish-German-American co-owner of Macy's department store with his brother Nathan. He also served briefly as a member of the United States House Of Representatives. He died with his wife, Ida who refused to get into a lifeboat without her husband, in the sinking of the passenger ship RMS Titanic 2:20 A.M. April 15, 1912. According to a friend and Titanic survivor Isidor refused to enter a lifeboat before the other men and Ida refused to leave her husband but insisted her English maid get into lifeboat #8 giving the woman her fur coat stating she would not be needing it. They were last seen on deck arm-in-arm. With this rare and Mint button comes a 8.25" fabric ribbon NM with just very trivial dust traces on the top edge. Above a long five verse poem credited to "Lillie Forbes Gunter" is a title at top reading "In Loving Memory/For All Who Perished In The/Atlantic When The Steamship/TITANIC/Sank To Her Green Grave On/April 14, 1912." Historic mementos of the historic maritime tragedy. A memorial plaque can be seen on the main floor of Macy's Department Store in Manhattan. Also see rare Titanic postcard #1030. Rare.