So I have these buttons. I have ABSOLUTELY no idea how to sell them. IDEAS? People help. There is a solid, unbelievable market out there right now for buttons, right? I don’t even care…. I just want them sold and enjoyed by someone else. And I want to make a bucketload of cash. I sort of kid. Anyhoo… here is every single bloody one listed. Advice, ideas? Ebay? I don’t think they will sell there, for some reason.
Sold AS IS… if you need specifics about these, let me know. I am an honest guy, and honest seller…. and the feedback should secure that. But these are old buttons that have not been expertly kept. However, as you can see in the pictures of EVERY SINGLE BUTTON IN THE LOT, they are in fine looking, pret a porte ready to wear condition. Most are in excellent condition. Some are fair, and when they aren’t the best I mention it. Some are mint… I probably will point that out too.
Here we go!
Some really artsy, original, sweet as hell hip buttons as follows: about 1 1/2″ across, with esoteric, wonderful, bizarre, freeform sayings:
6 Black ones w/ white lettering that say:
Color Blind
Misemployed
Save the Hell Out of Me
Squinting Doesn’t Help
So Many Babes So Few Talk to Me
6 white w/ black lettering that say:
If So, How?
Hate Me Gently
Temporarily Disgruntled
Defy Convention (sorta bent a bit, but fitting I assume)
Parking for Kindly Old Gents Only
Aren’t We a Suspicious Lot
2″ across buttons with different backgrounds, different designs, different sayings:
I tried to drown my troubles but the little suckers learned how to swim
First snow, then silence. The thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully
I have the simplest of tastes, I only want the best.
Some Drink To Remember, Others Drink to Forget, I Drink Because It’s Fun
Just Give Me the Damn Donut
I get stranger things than you in my breakfast cereal
You cannot stop me, you cannot destroy me, for I am the cockroach of love.
With a Little less makeup you could pass for a hooker
If this had been a real emergency we’d be dead now
Ya Snooze, Ya Lose.
All Those Believe in Psychokinesis, Raise my Hand
I went to Grandma’s House and got these neat tranquilizers
Some random cool funny hep hipster buttons that could be a hoot for the wacky irony:
“Take us someplace special” – Washington State Ferries – rife with humor, because you get to define special
3 small Speak & Spell buttons… a speak and spell, math and spell, and speak and read – uber hip, especially with the circuit bending electronica crowd
two no backing (pokey) medium sized yellow “YES! I mind if you smoke” – American Lung Association – funny if you are a smoker
Two medium sized buttons from my old orthodontist – smiley face with braces saying “I WANNA BE STRAIGHT” which I think could be hilariously ironic for the right gent or madam.
larger white Stanford Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center “NOPE TO DOPE” – funny if you are doing drugs… not that that’s funny.
5 original Ghostbusters promotional pins from 1985 – 2 of which are sorta scratched a bit (one that needs a new pin through the back), the other 3 fairly perfect.
1980’s Glam Rock Heavy Metal and ROCK N ROLL buttons!!!!
2 Duran Duran
1 The Pretenders
1 that I am fairly definite is a psychotic Ozzy Osbourne
13 various Motley Crue buttons…. 2 the name of the band, the others various Nikki Stix and various group/member buttons SO BADASS!
9 Boy George / Culture Club Buttons
7 Michael Jackson buttons
One button, larger, that says “ANDY”. I think it’s Andy Gibb, but I sort of hope it isn’t.
3 of blond pretty boys – all from 80’s bands – one says nick one says roger they look like a pair, and one says vince and he’s a ROCKER
2 Van Halen – 1 logo 1 1984 cover
2 Quiet Riot group shots
various: Huey Lewis & the News , Adam Ant, Billy Idol, some random famous big hair rocker from the 70’s that I don’t recognize…
and I am so sorry to say this.. a white lettering on black “THE BEATLES” logo button. I don’t know why it is being shamed by this stuff, but it is.
2 Live 105 KITS 105.3 SF buttons… U2 Stops the Traffic Oak Coliseum 4/18/92 (4/18/1992 or 1992-04-18) and one “Renegades of the Airwaves” (yeah right)
One “Let’s Go Bowling” LGB with a bowling pin ska button (minor scrapes – collector’s would be pissed, button wearers would just wear it)
One two tone “Mad Skins” with the big M wearing a Pork Pie Hat and with cute feet, and don’t get into it with me “skins” were Jamaicans first before the National Front hijacked their classic style. Bastard nazi idiots.
TEA LEAF GREEN “We got high with the band” Live at the Fillmore April 7, 2006
HAPPY BRIGADE High Sierra Music Festival camp button
The Invisibles with the name Grant Morrison 1994 on it
(A HUGE ONE but physically small… this has got to be worth something) I’m Your Fan 1991 Atlantic Records “The Songs of Leonard Cohen” yellow button with a banana on it. There are slight scratches on it….
(another – small face, faded, from yellow to whitish) “i’m so FUCKING special” 1993 Capitol Records Promotional Radiohead button
4 Hard Rock Cafe pins:
One metal logo “London” pin
One metal white guitar pin
2 plastic, different prints of “No drugs or nuclear weapons allowed inside” with the logo on the inside
Even more random-er buttons:
8 – with word “HATE” crossed out with red slash and circle logo buttons
2 packard children’s hospital at Stanford buttons
1990 U.S Open metal button with Infiniti logo and brand name
Save the Olympic Eagle Athletics 1984 Olympics button with eagle hurdling
Edmonton Oilers button with small tear on the name Edmonton
2 Universal Studios buttons – 1 with Jaws, 1 with a Dragon breathing FIRE!
crappily made metal buttons – 1 that says nnnnnnyahhhh with a freaking out kid, one that says “Don’t Follow Me I’M Lost”, I brake for Reindeer, one with a spider that reads “Dont Bug Me”, on with an alien that reads “Take me to your Leader”, one random one with Gundam warriors on it, and the letter “Z”, button from a SF Peninsula restaurant- a weird looking “Your Max’s Valentine”, “Kiss Me Carefully, I’m Wearing Braces”
1 that says “lick me” with a heart
1 with a blue wave that says “SAVE WATER”
One that says EVO, one that has a gear on a firey psychadelic background
a metal Nintendo power logo button
a round golden metal American’s Cup Challenge 1987 button
a button with a butterfly
a button with the tail fin of a caddy
a Nike plastic “FORCE” button back from the day
a striped red and white United Airlines with logo button
a Wild about Anchorage button attached to a paper that says “Seymour of Anchorage” and a dancing moose from the CVB
a button that says I *heart* ASAE?
a button with the Mcdonald’s logo, a heart, then PRUNEDALE underneath. Mcdonald’s Loves Prunedale. Sweet.
a larger wild about anchorage button
2 pairs of plastic shaped white rayban glasses buttons
one yellow button from Northstar with the picture of a skier on it… looks like a beginner
I’m in to win Aztech Ware trade show button
I love my pot belly bear with a pic of a cute stuffed bear
a huge San Francisco GIANTS button
an Oregon State Beavers button with Benny the Beaver
small elephant carrying a flag that reads ’92 political campaign button
round metal keep the torch lit button with statue of liberty torch highlighted
lip marks on button that says “kissimmee if you please” from a CVB
a button with a blue rose
a button with batman and the bat symbol
a donald duck plastic disney button (missing pin for lapel)
a similar pluto plastic disney button (with pin, just fine)
metal alfie alberta robot button
praise the lord with a cross button
[heart] mickey mouse button
Steve23 Mayor BRC 2008
One PTA button that says “Circle of Poppies Membership Award’ 1986 (which strikes me as funny)
San Mateo Park School Good Citizen Button (needs new pin)
a red white and blue gold metal medallion that says “American Celebration”
a flimsy, cheap thin bendable metal button for Muscular Dystrophy MS
a small metal grenade
a button reading “I’ll Bang You Anytime” for a hair salon
Red button with the words “MY VAGINA’S – in smaller words “protected by” – and larger once again WETT (I assume it’s a lubricant or spermicide? I dunno, but it’s funny.)
