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Cox-Roosevelt button, $100,300, Hake’s Auctions

Cox-Roosevelt button, $100,300, Hake’s Auctions

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far

by Ken Hall

Cox-Roosevelt button, $100,300, Hake’s Auctions A James M. Cox and Franklin Roosevelt 1920 jugate button, one inch in diameter, sold for $100,300 at a Premier Auction held March 21-22 by Hake’s Auctions in York, PA. Also, a circa 1920 Type 1 original photograph of Babe Ruth from his first New York Yankees season credited to Paul Thompson fetched $78,529; and a TOLTOYS (Australia) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) JAWA vinyl-caped action figure changed hands for $49,324.