Wizard of Oz - Ozmite Club - 1926

1.75-inch brass pin

Flight wing design flanking stylized panel representing an open book with “OZ” at center. Reverse reads “The Ozmite Club.” Issued by the Oz book publishers Reilly and Lee. Badge was free and was obtained by signing up in the book department of select stores. Members also received Ozmite Club “Secrets” as a separate hand-out.

Hake’s Auction 2014 realized $475.00

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)

1-inch pin-back button

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private art school with locations in Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Lacoste, France. It was founded in 1978 to provide degrees in programs not yet offered in the southeast of the United States. The university enrolls more than 14,000 students from across the United States and around the world with international students comprising up to 17 percent of the student population. SCAD is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and other professional accrediting bodies.

Picked up at NYCC 2023

Tom Corbett Space Cadet - 1951

2 1/8-inch pin-back button

Issued by Kellogg's in 1951 as part of a membership kit, which included the pin-back button, , Space Cadet Newsletter, cast photo, 2.5x4" cardboard membership card decoder, patch and certificate

Tom Corbett—Space Cadet stories were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, and other media in the 1950s.

The stories followed the adventures of Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the Solar Guard. The action takes place at the Academy in classrooms and bunkrooms, aboard their training ship the rocket cruiser Polaris, and on alien worlds, both within the Solar System and in orbit around nearby stars.

Hop Harrigan - All-American Flying Club : 1940s

Hop Harrigan is an American old-time radio juvenile adventure program. It was broadcast on ABC from August 31, 1942, until August 2, 1946, and on Mutual from October 2, 1946, until February 6, 1948. General Foods began sponsoring the program on October 2, 1944; it had previously been unsponsored.

In the program’s second month on the air, the staff of Hop Harrigan received 124,264 letters as people wrote in for premiums that were offered to listeners. The program had two organizations for young fans—the All American Flying Club and the American Observation Corps.

Christina Lauren - 2013

Christina Lauren (the combined penname of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings) is a New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling American author duo of contemporary fiction, teen fiction and romance novels

These 1.75-inch pin-back buttons promote the 2013 release of the second and third release in the Beautiful series which ended in 2016 after the publication of the 10th book

Amos 'n' Andy Wise Crack : 1930s

1-inch pin-back buttons from Green Duck Co Chicago
Amos 'n' Andy is an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio show was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden), Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), and George "Kingfish" Stevens (Gosden) as well as incidental characters. On television from 1951 to 1953, black actors took over the majority of the roles; white characters were infrequent. 

Travel Alberta - c1970s

2.25-inch pin-back button

Alberta has been a tourist destination from the early days of the twentieth century, with attractions including outdoor locales for skiing, hiking and camping, shopping locales such as West Edmonton Mall, Calgary Stampede, outdoor festivals, professional athletic events, international sporting competitions such as the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games, as well as more eclectic attractions. According to Alberta Economic Development, Calgary and Edmonton both host over four million visitors annually. Banff, Jasper and the Rocky Mountains are visited by about three million people per year.  Alberta tourism relies heavily on Southern Ontario tourists, as well as tourists from other parts of Canada, the United States, and many other countries – Wikipedia