| Storing and Displaying Political Buttons and Exonumia: | ||
| This is an interesting hobby for the history buffs. A good friend that
has helped this company along is, himself, a collector of these items. And
he has stories and insights for many of his political buttons, and a few political
cartoons too. He uses a couple of
Riker Mounts as a display case to show his newest buttons and a couple of others for his all-time
favorite exonumia. And yet a few more for sort of a rotating collection. And he
rotates this collection in and out of a Riker Drawer Case. He has enough
buttons in his collection that he can often pull out a candidate's buttons
for an earlier campaign when the guy is trying to get himself elected to a newer
-bigger- office.
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Check out Riker Mounts (sort of an instant display case) and Riker Frames to show-case the political buttons or political cartoons on the wall. | |
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... and then check out Riker Drawer Cases for storage and protection of the actual Riker mounts.
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Finally, for your most interesting political button, consider putting it in a display case -and if it is specially valuable, I make a display case that locks too. | |
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Interesting Links:
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Interesting word, "exonumia" -literally means "outside of coins." This is to say coin-like things that are not actually coins or money, -medals, political button, tokens and the like. Check out, AAA Historic Americana.
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American Political Items Collectors is The National Organization of Political Hobbyists and Scholars.
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The Token and Medal Society (TAMS) sort of straddles the worlds of political buttons and coins. Interesting site. They also have some good bits to help out teachers,
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This is actually a political site, but Politics1 is good site and it has a page on collecting political buttons.
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