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Presidential Campaign Tin Trays(1/22/09) By Tom Carrier
WorthPoint Worthologist
Throughout the 19th century, supporters for American presidential candidates were able to advertise their loyalty by buying …
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Crazy Prices for Obama Victory Papers(11/11/08) November 5 was a very special day for the United States of America. When Barack Obama was declared the next president of the United States, hot collectibles were the next morning’s newspaper. Across the country, the demand for the Nov. 5 edition of the newspaper, any newspaper, was astronomical.
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Political Collectibles: What’s Hot(11/7/08) Someone once suggested to me that when an election is over, the buttons and posters and everything are all trash. I immediately countered that this may be the one area of collectibles where items from an event continue to have a value well after it has ended.
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Jim Warlick’s Political Americana(10/28/08) Jim Warlick is a Political Worthologist for WorthPoint. He knows political buttons. He is the President and CEO of the USA Button Poll, which has accurately predicted the presidential elections with the exception of 2000 since 1988. He also owns a political memorabilia store in the heart of Washington D.C., where you can find your candidates mug on everything from hats to cuff links and buttons.
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Campaign Buttons Predict Winners(10/27/08)
What we collect says a lot about ourselves as a nation. Our collectibles tell us a lot about where we’ve been. And sometimes, what we collect can be an indicator of where we are going. A case in point is political-campaign buttons.
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