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r90 NATn0lilAlt BU'llllON BnlX,tETiN October 1997

Your 1998 Dues Are Due
NOW!

lf you have not already sent in your 1998 dues,
please do so right now. Pick up the pink slip
enclosed with this Bulletin, fill it out, enclose your
check and mail immediately to:
Lois Pool, Secretary
2733 Juno Place
Akron, OH 44333-4137
Make your check payable to National Button
Society. Please do your part in allowing us to plan
for the future. Renew your membership before
October 31
and make life a lot easier for all of us.

The Cover Button

Few buttons have left me as awestruck as this stamped silver
specimen. This beautifully rhythmic pattern depicts an army of
medieval helmeted pikemen with their terrible long pikes forming
a bristling bridge of steel poised in dramatic dynamic opposition
to the behatted townsmen defendins with their dreadful halberts.
The symmetry of weapons delineate a
scene ofstark silent carnage. A
few ofthe bodies have already
spilled under the pikes in the
foreground. This
unforgettable button is from
the collection of the late
iuanita Hill.
-MWS