Elwar Button Mystery

[hugohernandez]

Absolutely STUNNING collection you have there, Hugo! Still need a Creature myself to complete my set...someday. Freddie Poe beat me to the last one i saw at a Chiller Expo a couple of years ago!

Do you mean a 1st run creature?    or the Elwar one?   Elwar Big buttons show up all the time on eBay.

[hugohernandez]

Hooray.   the vendor card showed up today in the mail along with the extra buttons, the Frankenstein is a keeper.   The mummy looks good but has lost its shine in front.   Creeech has some discoloration going on along with a little lifting of plastic coating in that area.    Def displayable and I will say so when I relist on eBay.       I really wanted the Frank button and the Artwork.     The art work itself does have the ben-day dots on the faces.    The bold red background and type are flat.

[hugohernandez]

Here's a picture of my big Elwars (again):



All 6 are clearly the more common type. The other five I picked up off eBay a couple of years ago, but that Creature button is the one I got as a kid in the mid '60s. There's nothing hazy about the button, or roughly when I got it. The memory is a little unclear about the exact year and what the packaging looked like, and the exact store it was purchased from, but I'm pretty sure it was on a blister card and it was 39 cents and it was from a store like Kresge or Woolworth. I know it wasn't bought as late as the '70s because I wasn't buying the monster stuff then except for comics and mags (I was into Hot Wheels and other types of toys by that time). It had to have been purchased in the mid '60s, no later than '67, and probably around '65.

HorrorHunter, I just saw you have the Batty Buttons that I just started collecting, sitting right there above the Elwars!    Nice.   you wouldn't have an Extra Frankenstien Ain't I cute button by any chance?

[hugohernandez]

Got a proper display case for my buttons.  finally.

[hugohernandez]

Also got these 2 very special button.   The seller remembers buying them down the street when he was just a little kid.

He is getting ready to move to Florida and retire so he is thinning out his collection.     I am super stoked that he sold them to me.

[Mike Scott]

Also got these 2 very special button. 

I don't recall seeing these, before! Do they look old (any rust)? Are they marked, at all? What size are they?

[hugohernandez]

the buttons are 2 inchers.   here is a video of my unwrapping them and I am able to read the curl on Frankenstein.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk8r0Tsqw9E&t=1s

also here is a close up of the back of them.

[hugohernandez]

here is the old auction I missed where I first saw these cool big buttons.   

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-MONSTER-PIN-BACK-BUTTONS-4-/152270361277?hash=item23740552bd%3Ag%3AR0YAAOSwCGVX96J8&nma=true&si=jaFjKqIViyD9TC7uj2TXw8G8sEk%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

[Mike Scott]

Cool! You got a set of the small Elwar buttons!

Like those 2" buttons! The look almost new on the front.

[hugohernandez]

LOL its 2 and 1/4 big.

every inch counts.   or every quarter inch counts.

[Mike Scott]

LOL its 2 and 1/4 big.

I was rounding down to the nearest inch. 

[hugohernandez]

check out this auction with its original famous monsters fan club button.   oh and that gnarly monster certificate.   of course I can't afford it but it would be very cool to own.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Famous-Monsters-Fan-Club-Pack-1962-4-Pieces-RARE-/311746361163?hash=item489587f74b:g:MzgAAOSwiDFYNI~l

[Mike Scott]

oh and that gnarly monster certificate.   

Wow! Another one turns up! And with the cover letter! I've never seen one of those! To bad he didn't have the card to complete the package. Thanks for the link!

[Mike Scott]

I straightened out the cover letter, in case anyone wants to print it. I've got the certificate, too, in case you need it.

[hugohernandez]

Do you think he will lower the price?  That is quadruple LOL of what I would be willing to pay.