Red slop below black text over yellow background. 

Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

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The image of a donkey coupled with the written words implies the phrase, “Stop Your Ass Kicking.” Nathan Shure’s toy company, Cosmo Manufacturing Company, was founded in 1892 and was known for creating the trinkets found in Cracker Jack Boxes. In 1926, Cosmo Manufacturing Company bought the Dowst Brothers Company, which was famous for its tiny works created using metal (including buttons, cufflinks, and other metal accessories that were intended for promotional purposes). When Cosmo Manufacturing Company absorbed the Dowst Brothers Company, the name for the new combined business was Dowst Manufacturing Company. Although the Dowst Brothers Company was known for their metal items, any buttons that are labeled "Cosmo Manufacturing" were presumably made prior to 1926 when the companies merged and the name changed. In 1937, the repackaged board game “Monopoly” (which had first been released two years prior) included new metal tokens made by Dowst Manufacturing Company. Those token designs are still used in the classic edition of Monopoly today.

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There are two sections. The top  section is an illustration of a foot on a blue background and the bottom section is red text on a yellow background.

Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

Disgusted boy and girl faces below blue text above red text over white background. 

Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

Black and white text over horizontally striped blue, white, and red background. 

Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

Two white fists between red text on green background. 

Judy Carne was a British actress and comedian, who starred on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” who coined the phrase "Sock-it-to-me!" and would then be hit with a bucket of water, or dropped through the floor, or otherwise clobbered in some form or fashion.

Angry man rolls up his sleeve above black and red text over yellow background. 

Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

Two shoe soles above yellow and white text over blue background. 

Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.