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Vintage buttons, political buttons make fun collectibles
Vintage buttons of all sorts and political buttons make fun, colorful collectibles that you can find easily when you're just starting out as a collector. Many families still have good old button boxes or bins around the house where mom or grandma may have spend years tossing the odd button. Dig around that button box and you never know what you might find!
Vintage political buttons may be a bit harder to come by, however. Few politicians in this age of the Internet and online presence actually create political buttons or pins to push their campaigns. But some still do. There are quite a few campaign button parodies floating around in even the most recent elections. These parody buttons generally are political satire either ridiculing or sometimes just poking fun at real candidates with phony slogans or political humor.
For some 4,000 years, the lowly button has hung around as an ornament to wear on clothing (or jewelry for piercing), as a clothing fastener, and it has even been used as currency. (Archaeologists have found cultures that old which used buttons made from animal bones and seashells for barter and wealth exchange.) Today's buttons and vintage buttons like those tucked away in home button boxes are practical for fastening clothing and also for decoration -- you can even find button wall hangings to dress up your home's decor! And, of course, collectible political buttons act as fun political signboards -- mini, wearable "personal bumper stickers" if you like.
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