This button produced by Hassan cigarettes, a very popular brand at the beginning of the 1900's. These were produced around 1910, and came free with the cigarettes. The buttons are lithographed images with a celluloid cover. Most have the paper insert from the particular brands of cigarette inside the pin's back. These buttons feature the art of the popular newspapers cartoonists at the dawning of the America's comics page. The button's artist's are the icons who's innovations lead the way to the comics we know today. This lot features the artwork of Hal Coffman.

Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) is probably the best-known of the primary artists in this series. He grew up in San Francisco and went to college to become an engineer, but after six months in his first job he quit to become a sports cartoonist with the San Francisco Chronicle. He eventually moved to New York City in 1907 and produced cartoons for the New York Evening Journal and other newspapers. He drew several cartoon series at the same time with some of his most popular being Mike and Ike and Boob McNutt. He coined the gag phrase "I'm the guy who..." around 1910, using it as a stock saying by one of the characters in a comic strip he was drawing. The phrase became quite popular and innumerable variations were made to the original concept.

These are for collectors of Vintage Tobacciana and Cartoon ephemera and anyone else that likes well made vintage cool. I will carefully package these pins so they arrive in the condition shown. Any questions? Need more photos? Feel free to contact me through eBay. Thanks for looking and please check out my store! Keeth.