Geppi’s Entertainment Auctions is offering character buttons from cartoons to monsters this week in on Hake’s Americana’s website. Join the circus club with a “Mary Hartline Canada Dry Super Circus Club” button, full color tin litho from 1951, measuring 1-5/8”. Enjoy a laugh with an “Abbott & Costello Keep’Em Flying” button from 1941 for their classic military comedy, measuring 7/8”; and get scared with 5 of 6 Universal Monster Series button set from the 1960s, measuring 7/8” this tin litho lot includes Mummy, Creature, Wolfman, Frankenstein, and Phantom, in near mint condition.

Heroes abound from the west to the space age to the four-legged this week. Hake’s Americana is offering a “Rocky Jones Space Ranger” with sponsor imprint button, measuring 1-3/8” from the 1950s; and a “Rin-Tin-Tin” movie button from the early 1930s, measuring 1.25”, the cello is in excellent condition. Don’t forget about those cowboys with a “Tom Mix and Tony” portrait button from the 1930s set of 25 different movie stars issued with gum in a wrapper titled “Button Gum”, 99% of the paint is complete, it measures .75”

Vintage cartoons and comics have left their imprint this week at Hake’s. Boast about a Pinocchio sighting with an “I’ve Seen ‘Pinocchio’ At Hudson’s” button, measuring 1.5” this black and white, shaded red button from the 1950s or earlier comes from a Detroit department store. Represent the comics with a “Foxy Grandpa” button with “Prize Badge” backpaper, circa 1902. It is one of the earliest comic strip promotional buttons, measuring 1.25”, and reads “Presented By New York Journal”; and an “Ignatz” Mouse button from a 1930s newspaper contest, reads “Ignatz Mouse New York Evening Journal” with serial number, it measures 1.25”.

Go to hakes.com to buy these and other Disney, comics, monsters, westerns, movie, and television characters.