Brown ink creates glasses and mustache smiley faces on yellow background with felt hats that have gold text names on them. Pins are affixed to tan holiday greeting card that measures 5 x 7. Card reads Happy Holidays From~ ROBIN TOM your little ol' Button Makers ASI5951 HAND TIP & NOVELTY CO., INC

The Little Ole’ Button Maker was a registered trademark of the Hand Tip and Novelty Co. for the promotional buttons in their line, based out of Newburg, New York. The trademark was registered in 1970 and notes the first commercial use of the Little Ole’ Button Maker was in 1965. The trademark expired in 1993. Hand and Tip Novelty Co. eventually became Hantico Line which was a New York City and Newburgh New York advertising specialty company. Hantico was later purchased by Uniflex, a bag manufacturer in 1992. In 1995, Uniflex Inc. sold Hantico to American Greenwood Inc. that had a similar promotional product line.

The Hand Tip and Novelty Co. was founded in Manhattan, New York in 1900 and was a manufacturer of promotional items such as ornate brass medallions and political buttons. As advertisements became popular in the 1950’s, there was a shift towards utilizing buttons for promoting items, people, and events. Hand and Tip Novelty Co. eventually became Hantico Line which was a specialty advertising company which later moved its base to Newburg, New York in 1984. Though the Hantico Line produced other items such as ribbons, clips, and clipboards, buttons were always the main focus of the company.

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The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents nearly 750,000 workers and retirees in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, Panama, Guam, and several Caribbean island nations; particularly electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public utilities. The union also represents some workers in the computer, telecommunications, broadcasting, and other fields related to electrical work.

IBEW was founded in 1891, two years before George Westinghouse lit up the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition with AC current and homes and businesses in the United States began receiving electricity. The local 110 chapter celebrated it's 100 year anniversary in 2012. Their chapter had originally begun in 1910 as eight workers under the banner of 23 who later formed the chapter.

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The Magic Forest is an amusement park located in Lake George, NY along Route 9. Opened in 1963 by Arthur Gillette, it featured the largest Uncle Sam statue in the world (as of May 9, 2019, the statue has since moved back home to Danbury, CT), a magic show, and cottages and attractions which follow the themes of children's tales and adventure stories. The park's famous Santa Claus overlooks the parking lot. Magic Forest was absorbed into a larger park named ‘Lake George Expedition Park’ in 2019. Magic Forest also has a small petting zoo where children can feed the animals. Magic Forest has accumulated the majority of their rides from defunct or failing amusement parks and these were repaired by Gillette and his family business. Gillette never met an old amusement ride that he couldn’t find a home for, bringing rides in from at least seven or eight other theme parks.

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The Horace E. Dodge cup race was a championship race for hydroplane motorboats held in Detroit, Michigan. Millionare manufacturer Horace E. Dodge, son of the automobile manufacturer, was an avid boat enthusiast and racer (1925-1930) manufacturing boats from his Detroit plant from 1930-1936 during the Great Depression.

William Edward "Bill" Muncey (November 12, 1928 – October 18, 1981) was an American hydroplane racing legend from Detroit, Michigan. The International Motorsports Hall of Fame and hydroplane historian Dan Cowie described Muncey as "without question, the greatest hydroplane racer in history." Muncey was nicknamed "Mr. Unlimited" and won 62 races, which was the most races in the history of the sport until Dave Villwock broke his record in 2011.

From 1970 to 1975, Bill drove for his old friend Lee Schoenith's Gale Enterprises team from Detroit. Under the sponsorship of MYR SHEET METAL in 1970, Muncey won three races and finished third in National High Points. This marked the first time that Bill had won more than one race in any one season since 1962. Muncey and the Myr won the Horace E. Dodge Cup in Detroit.

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Red Buttons was born as Aaron Chwatt in New York in 1919. He got a job as an entertaining bellhop at a Bronx tavern at age 16. There, the orchestra leader started calling him “Red Buttons” due to his red hair and the bellhop uniform. A stage name was created. Buttons had a movie career from 1944-2005 including The Poseidon Adventure. He had his own TV variety show from 1952-1955. In 1953, he recorded a hit record, “Strange Things are Happening/The Ho-Ho Song.”

This artifact misquotes the “The Ho-Ho Song” refrain as actual lyrics list, “Ho-Ho, He-He, Hoo-Hoo.”

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The comedy horror film, My Demon Lover, is the story of a young vagrant musician in New York who has been cursed to morph into a various demon-like creatures whenever he becomes interested in a woman he meets. Directed by Charlie Loventhal and released by New Line Cinema on April 24th in 1987, the movie stars actor, Scott Valentine, who is most well-known for his reoccurring role as Mallory Keaton's dopey artist boyfriend, "Nick Moore", on the hit sitcom, Family Ties from 1985 to 1989.

Though the film was poorly received by critics, it grossed $3,922,273 in theaters worldwide and now often appears on B-movie review sites due to its fantastical plot lines, "cheesy" special effects, and as a general relic for fans of 80s-themed nostalgia.

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Released in 1985, Cocoon is a science fiction film that delivers a comedic and dramatic account of aliens, romance, a human retirement home, and the fountain of youth in a backyard swimming pool next door. An alien race known as Antareans had inhabited a portion of Earth thousands of years ago in a place called Atlantis, but after it was claimed by the ocean, only twenty of their people survived by being safely encapsulated in cocoons. The Antareans come back to Earth to retrieve their kin but must first replenish the cocoons and the Antareans inside with life force before they can safely make the journey home. The romantic story of a human and an Antarean and the hilarity of the residents of the retirement home next door who discover the pool of life energy ensue, leading to the close of a film that won two Academy Awards, was nominated for seven Saturn Awards, and was recognized by the American Film Institute more than two decades later on two of their AFI lists.

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Ron Howard’s 1984 film, Splash, was the first film released by Touchstone Pictures, a Walt Disney Studios label geared toward adult audiences. The cast included major names for the time: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, and Eugene Levy. The film tells a tale of a mermaid in New York, long lost first loves, and a crazed scientist desperate to prove that mermaids exist. The film was an overall success, grossing $69.8 million in the United States and Canada during Splash’s initial run. Although Splash was nominated for six Saturn Awards, Daryl Hannah took home the only win for Best Actress. Splash also won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay, which was written by Bruce Jay Friedman, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel.
There are many promotional posters for Splash, including two different images of Tom Hanks holding Daryl Hannah. In one, he is wearing a suit jacket and in the other, he is not. While there are several posters that feature Daryl Hannah without her character’s tail, the majority of posters do feature her character as the mythical mermaid, complete with her orange mermaid tale.

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Elton John has been called the biggest pop star of the 1970s and his career has gone on to span decades. He was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in England in 1947 and demonstrated musical talent at a young age; he began playing the piano at age four and by eleven he had won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. He joined his first band in 1961, but after leaving that group, he teamed up with lyricist Bernie Taupin, writing music to Taupin's lyrics, forming a songwriting partnership that has lasted decades. Elton John’s fame skyrocketed in the 1970’s; he began to record the songs created with Taupin and from 1972-1976 they were unstoppable, with 16 top 20 hits in a row, and John has gone on to record successful albums ever since. 

Elton John is famous for his flamboyant performances as well as elaborate costumes, both on and off the stage. He experienced a decline in popularity after publicly identifying as bisexual due to oppressive views about homosexuality. Rising above conservative attitudes, he went on to record top hits and has become a prolific and iconic musician. In 1992, he came out as gay and married his husband, David Furnish, the following year.

John is known for his outlandish glasses, which have become a trademark look for the star. Around 1975, he was photographed wearing his apple shaped frames by Michael Ochs, a well known rock & roll photographer from the 1960s and 1970s.

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The popular 1984 Paul Bogart film, Oh, God! You Devil, was a sequel to the 1977 hit Oh, God! and the 1980 sequel Oh, God! Book II. All three movies star comedian George Burns, who won the Saturn Award for Best Actor for his first film portraying God on screen in 1977. In the first two, George Burns plays the role of God, but in Oh, God! You Devil, Burns plays both God and his devilish counterpart. The plot follows a regular musician named Bobby Shelton who sells his soul to the devil to become a famous rock star so that he can support his wife and begin a family of their own. When the contract is signed, Bobby Shelton is transformed into the famous Billy Wayne but is forced to give up his old life and watch as someone else takes his place beside his wife. Desperate to back out of the deal, Bobby Shelton tries to contact God for help. Oh, God! You Devil collected $5.5 million on its first weekend in theaters, taking the lead for that weekend. Although the film was a hit in theaters and George Burns was once again nominated for Best Actor in the Saturn Awards, Oh, God! You Devil did not receive much critical acclaim and has a drastically worse rating on Rotten Tomatoes than its counterparts, Oh, God! and Oh, God! Book II.