Since 1963, artist David Levine has been creating wonderful caricatures to be published in the New York Review Of Books. A number of his characters featuring politicians were converted into buttons during the Vietnam era and there are outstanding pieces along the line of LBJ crying crocodile tears which are actual crocodiles. Here are 4 buttons we’ve never seen before. Each is 6” in dia. with a black cardboard easel back plus bar pin. The name of the composer is printed along the bottom front edge of each and the design includes Levine’s facsimile signature and a date which corresponds to when the caricature was in the aforementioned publication. Each of these buttons has penciled date on reverse “Dec. 1979” although they carry 4 different copyright dates on their obverse. Group consists of: “Ludwig Von Beethoven” with 1975 date; “Gustav Mahler” with 1973 date; “Franz Schubert” with 1977 date; and “Richard Wagner” with 1972 date. All are essentially Mint as issued. Only examples we know of.