"JOIN COX-S ARMY/BLOOMINGTON" RARE 1932 BONUS MARCHER BUTTON.
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Winning Bid:
$337.76 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bids:
11
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:00:00 AM)
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Auction:
Auction #203 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1428 in auction 203
Value Code:
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Item Description
See item #307 for the history behind this button as well as item #308 and real photo postcard #30. This button is 1-7/16" with backpaper from "Williamson Stamp Co./Minneapolis." The text on the button relates to Father Cox, a Pittsburgh priest who led a large group of unemployed to Washington in 1932 to take part in the protests which were staged to get Congress to pay the promised bonus to (largely unemployed) World War I veterans immediately rather than in 1945 as the legislation passed in 1924 had stipulated. Button's upper left edge has a 1/16" air dot and just below it a very faint pinpoint tan dot, both of which are barely noticeable, and the button is otherwise in Exc. condition. Extremely limited and a rare cause button.
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