Featured Finds Thread

THey're actually black, but..who knows. I have to retest the dark ones.

 

On October 10, 1911, California became the sixth state where women could vote equally with men, nine years before the 19th Amendment enfranchised women nationally.


I won this auction today, knowing there are many original Women’s Suffrage pinbacks available and many reproductions too. Searching found a slew of better condition buttons that sold in the $150 to $200 range. This one looked good to my eye and not a “run of the mill”.

“To publicize their Cause as widely as possible, suffragists produced pin-back buttons, pennants and posters. They created post cards, playing cards and shopping bags. They used electric signs, 8-foot tall billboards and lantern slides at night to flash their message. They distributed over three million pieces of literature and over 90,000 Votes for Women buttons in southern California alone.”
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/celebrating-womens-suffrage/california-women-suffrage-centennial

I also liked that image and text searching did not find this one. I would have thought that the word captain would pull something out of the web, but no. Finally I found a mention to captain after I won it.

“Each precinct of the city was to have its “captainess,” whose sole duty was to organize the precinct and to attend to house-to-house canvassing. The Association also planned a rainbow shower of literature, consisting of multi-colored pamphlets containing arguments for suffrage.”
https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1977/october/suffrage/

Obviously not one of the 90,000 buttons.

I think that as a leadership button it translates to a higher value.

If anyone can share some more info about it, I'd love to know.