Unusual coloured pro-Boer button made in the United States by The Whitehead & Hoag Company, Newark, by a process patented April 14, 1983 and July 21, 1896.
Also with a union label - Allied Printing Trades.
Lacks the pin on the back.
20 mm in diameter.
No Date, (1900)
'The Whitehead & Hoag Company was devoting its time to ribbon badges and making some with celluloid parts when the button was patented. Before their patents expired and the development of the small printing press, they would become the largest manufacturer of buttons in the world.
The success of the button idea was astonishing, and buttons swept the country in an avalanche. Advertising and 1896 presidential campaign buttons saturated the nation. Their first big order went to the American Tobacco Co., at the rate of one million a day.
There were no machines at the time to place the pin and paper in the back of the buttons. W&H solved this problem by offering extra spending money to the families living around the factory to do it. Every night after school the children would walk over to the factory and pick up a box full of buttons, pins and back papers.
The company had always been non-partisan, accepting button orders not only from both major parties but from such minority groups as the Socialists, Prohibitionists and others. A few of the artists that worked for W&H from time to time included Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and Harrison Fisher.'
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