STATE TROOPERS of AMERICA is a new 414 page soft back book with approximately 1500 high resolution black and white photographs relating to the state trooper of today and yesterday. The book covers all 50 states in individual chapters. Written for primarily for serious memorabilia collectors and for the movie and TV industry producers, the publication is great reference reading for anyone interested in the state trooper. There are details, details, details in both word and picture. Every chapter shows the current badge, uniform shoulder patch, hat badge, hat, uniforms, marked patrol cars, and license plates of today's state police and highway patrol departments. Older badges, uniforms, hats and hat badges, shoulder patches, marked patrol cars, and license plates are also shown in high resolution black and white photographs. The deceptive hobby of badge collecting is also covered, as are the reproduction badges and fake badges of today. Just the size of the book, 414 pages, makes this one of the largest books ever written on the state trooper and the departments. The author took nearly two years to research and complete this outstanding state police and highway patrol reference guide. Detailed information was provided by the departments, the badge and patch manufacturers, serious collectors, and the state troopers of today. Mauldin was the author and publisher of the old State Police & State Highway Patrol Badge Guide, now out of print after serving serious collectors and the movie producers all over the world with FIVE editions.
Four buttons, this is a great start for button for the collector, the fan or even as a joke item as well.
The finest collections throughout the country were photographed to assemble this remarkable record of American political history since George Washington's era. The book prices and pictures in black & white 4,000 presidential campaign items such as portrait badges, ribbons, textiles, tokens, posters, china, canes, mechanical novelties, flags, ferrotype and cardboard badges, celluloid badges, and many other unusual campaign collectibles. Complete election statistics are included and each item has a code number. This is the first and only comprehensive reference work on presidential campaign artifacts of the 19th century.
"Through buttons and bumper stickers and the like, Bailey has found a new way to tell the history of Texas politics. . . . To peruse Bailey's collection is to realize how much the business of politics has changed. Many of the items featured here date from an era when there was no television and no polls. Candidates used them as they use the mass media today: to get their names before the public. . . . Bailey's collection . . . bring[s] Texas political history alive." --Paul Burka, from the foreword Texas politicians are a lively, sometimes controversial, always entertaining breed, and the ways they have chosen to put themselves and their messages before the public are equally as interesting. Anything and everything that can be printed with a candidate's name, image, and slogan--from buttons and bumper stickers to chewing gum, pocket knives, and plastic pickles--is likely to turn up in a Texas political campaign. Though many consider these items ephemeral, collectors value political memorabilia as a fascinating "sound bite" record of the candidates and issues that engaged the voting public over decades. Texas Political Memorabilia presents just such a pictorial history of Texas politics, the first ever compiled. Drawn from the vast personal collection of Chuck Bailey and augmented with items from other private and public collections, this book presents the most exceptional, most memorable, and most informative examples of Texas political memorabilia. The featured items cover everything from the presidential campaigns of Lyndon Johnson and both George Bushes, to U.S. House and Senate elections, to statewide races for governor and the Texas House and Senate, to county and city elections. All the major figures of twentieth-century Texas politics--as well as Sam Houston and Davy Crockett--are represented in the book. To set the images in context, Chuck Bailey and Bill Crawford provide background on the candidates, races, and issues that inspired many of the pieces pictured in the book. From LBJ's Stetson-shaped ashtrays to Jake Pickle's plastic squeaker pickles to George W. Bush's "W" buttons, Texas Political Memorabilia is a treasure trove of the nuts and bolts and buttons of Texas politics. (20070528)
Learn to think, talk, buy, and sell like an expert!•With the 2004 Presidential election in full swing, politics are on everyone’s mind—especially collectors!• Covers the diverse range of political items, from the most important collectibles, buttons and pinbacks, to autographs, inaugural tickets, noisemakers, and ceramics.• All the memorabilia from the 1789 campaigns to the 2004 elections — campaign by campaign.
This is a great button magnet for the collector, the fan or even as a joke item as well.
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