Nine (9) William McKinley presidential campaign buttons and ribbon badges, 1896 and 1900. 1st item: McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt campaign button, 1900, depicting jugate portrait vignettes of the candidates centered above a landscape depicting a farmyard and a factory above black lettering reading "COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES" centered below, surrounded by a gold border with red white and blue stars and stripes. Maker's marks, lower right edge. Retains The Mertz Button Company, New York, back paper. 1 1/4" dia. 2nd item: McKinley campaign button, 1896, depicting McKinley sitting in a throne-like chair above his Democratic rival William Jennings Bryan with black lettering reading "MCKINLEY 1896" centered below against a white background. Patent marks dated 1896 bottom edge. Retains Whitehead and Hoag, Newark, New Jersey back paper. 13/16" dia. 3rd item: McKinley and Garret Augustus Hobart campaign buttonhole pin, 1896, depicting jugate bust portrait vignettes of the candidates with red lettering reading "PROTECTION/SOUND MONEY" centered to top and bottom against an off white background with a red drawing of a lit torch. Maker's marks, reverse. 1 1/2" dia. 4th item: McKinley and Roosevelt campaign button, 1900, depicting the trigate bust portrait vignettes of the candidates including a third unidentified individual against a patriotic red, white, and blue ribbon with an off white background. Retains Whitehead and Hoag, Newark, New Jersey back paper. 1 1/4" dia. 5th-6th items: Two (2) McKinley campaign ribbon badges, 1896 and 1900, including one (1) comprised of a brass tone metal pin in the shape of the Great Seal of the United States affixed to a red, white, and blue silk ribbon depicting jugate bust portrait vignettes of McKinley and Hobart and one (1) comprised of a pinback button with jugate bust portrait vignettes of McKinley and Roosevelt against a gold background affixed to two (2) silk ribbons, one (1) bow shaped with an American flag and one (1) with off white and gold lettering reading "PENNSYLVANIA'S/CHOICE/McKINLEY/and ROOSEVELT" against an off white background. Ranging in size from 3 1/4" to 6 3/4" L. 7th-8th items: Two (2) McKinley and Roosevelt campaign buttons, 1900, depicting jugate bust portrait vignettes of the candidates, one against a patriotic ribbon background. One (1) retains back paper. 13/16" dia. 9th item: McKinley campaign button, depicting a bust portrait vignettes of McKinley against an American flag background. 13/16" dia. Provenance: Private Southern estate.

All items in overall good condition with light surface scratches. Some with rust to metal. Some back papers with toning. Some with minute spotting to surface and edges. 5th-6th items: Pennsylvania ribbon with fraying/areas of separation held together by two pieces of scotch tape, largest 3/4" x 3/4", reverse.