[Vintagedeputy]

Attended the famous Fishersville, Va. antique show today for the first time. Pinbacks and sports stuff in general was hard to find. I did find one pinback dealer who had a few nice 1960’s buttons that I liked; Cranes, some NFL pins and a few Kelloggs jet planes that I wanted. Problem was, his prices were outrageous and he had a terrible attitude. He wouldn’t let anyone open any of the cases to pull out any button. I wanted to put a group together to see about getting a good price. He refused so I had to try to keep showing him button after button in trays and having him think about it to give me a price. His general customer service was atrocious and I was probably ready to spend $75 or $100 with him, but I simply walked away because of his nastiness.

I wandered around the antique sale a bit longer, and didn’t think I was going to find anything. I then spotted a vendor with a couple of display cases so I approached and saw that he had a number of different pinback buttons. He ended up having four baseball buttons. Two of them were from the American Nut and Chocolate series, a Brooklyn Dodgers and a Boston Braves button. Unfortunately, he had them both priced at $35 apiece. I asked him what his best price on those was and he said he could do both for $50 which was still too much. The Dodgers one was even scratched up some. He said he thought they might be rare and I explained to him that they are actually pretty common, and can generally be had for about 10 bucks or so apiece. Needless to say I didn’t buy those. Then I spotted these two gems. He had them priced at a very reasonable amount and thus they came home with me.