Buttons They Can Stand Behind
TED HAKE has been a collector since he was eight and a button dealer since the age of eighteen. In 1967, he founded Hake’s Auctions, America’s first auction house specializing in pop-culture artifacts. He has written seventeen collector guides spanning presidential campaign items, vintage Disneyana and comic character toys. For decades, Ted helped children’s author Maurice Sendak build his 1930s-era Mickey Mouse collection. Ted has received the American Political Items Collectors Lifetime Achievement Award and is a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Advisory Board.
has been a fan of buttons since she was twelve, when they were one of the few items cheap enough for her to buy with her own money.
