Stamp Out Report Cards

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Text on Button stamp out report cards
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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.

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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.

Catalog ID IB0417

Stamp Out Good Sportsmanship

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Text on Button STAMP OUT GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP
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Disgusted boy and girl faces below blue text above red text over white background. 

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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.

Catalog ID HU0048

Official Spelling Champ Blue White and Red

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Text on Button OFFISHAL SPELING CHAMP
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Black and white text over horizontally striped blue, white, and red background. 

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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.

Catalog ID IB0457

Sock It To Me

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Text on Button SOCK IT TO ME
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Two white fists between red text on green background. 

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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.

Catalog ID IB0397

When You Say That Smile #2

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Text on Button When You Say That...SMILE
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Angry man rolls up his sleeve above black and red text over yellow background. 

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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.

Catalog ID IB0453

Shh You'll Wake Me

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Text on Button SHH! you'll wake me up
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Two shoe soles above yellow and white text over blue background. 

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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.

Catalog ID IB0447

Seniors Do It Better

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Text on Button Seniors DO IT BETTER
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Yellow text with white text over a black bar over red background. 

Curl Text 1983 BUTTON-UP CO. P.O. BOX 20275 FERNDALE MICH. 48220
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The “___ do it better” slogan has existed since at least the height of its popularity in the 1970s, and has been customized for countless identifiers, like professions, hobbies, physical traits, and nationalities. Famously, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin wore a shirt onstage in 1977 that read “Nurses Do It Better!” in honor of his then-wife Maureen, who was a nurse. Legend has it, someone in the crowd threw the shirt to him during the performance, and after reading it aloud he laughed saying, “I know!”

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Led Zeppelin News. (2018, May 27). Robert Plant is selling an official ‘Nurses Do It Better’ T-shirt through his website. https://ledzepnews.com/2018/05/27/robert-plant-is-selling-an-official-n…

Reporter_at_large. (2018, January 26). Robert Plant & Led Zeppelin... Oakland Coliseum July 1977... Plant caught this shirt when a fan threw it and shouted out 'Nurses do it better!' Robert Plant laughed and said 'I know' . His wife Maureen was a qualified nurse. [Online forum post]. Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/7t86t0/robert_plant_led…

Catalog ID IB0444

Self Respect

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Text on Button self respect starts in your head
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Outlined profile of a bald head amidst black text over green background. 

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The concept of "self-respect", which is defined as the pride and confidence one has in their own self, has been the subject of many philosophical and psychological movements over the last few centuries - perhaps starting with the writings of the 18th century Enlightenment thinker, David Hume, who wrote A Treatise of Human Nature in 1749. The profile of the bald human head seen here harkens to images used to promote the popular 19th century pseudoscience, "phrenology", which deemed that the measurements of the human skull could be used to determine an individual's inherent mental traits. This "phrenological" image used in tangent with the phrase "self respect starts in your head" may simply be promoting the positive message that one should always remember that they are in charge of their own self-respect.

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David Hume. (2020, June 8). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume

Phrenology. (2020, May 24). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

Catalog ID IB0441

Scram

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Text on Button SCRAM
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Gesturing thumb below blue text over yellow background.

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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.

Catalog ID IB0454