Lapel Pins

Archive for May, 2010

Hello, and welcome to the capital of pin trading country… Lapel Pins USA! I wanted to send out a request for our readers to send in their pin trading stories from their part of the world. Whether you’re the coach of a traveling team, or your son or daughter are on a league, send in [...]

NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has released mission pins, and several other lapel pins over the decades. These pins have become extremely collectible, some honoring the men and women of the space program, others stamping into time the dates of missions past, present and future. NASA lapel pins have a certain allure about [...]

In the world of sports, just about any sport has a following of pin collectors. Pins are designed and made by fans to support the sport they love. Hockey pins are being traded at hockey events around the globe, and quickly emerging as a very popular item on the collecting market. There are professional league [...]

Collecting cause and awareness lapel pins can be rewarding in several ways. Foremost if you’ve purchased a cause or awareness lapel pin, you’ve shown support by funding research for things like cancer research, fighting aids, or finding cures for childhood diseases. Another way in which collecting awareness lapels can be rewarding is by the uniqueness [...]

For anyone who collects pins, we’ve all seen baseball trading pins, softball trading pins, disney trading pins and more, but there’s another sport in which pin trading is gaining in popularity; soccer. Soccer trading pins are nothing new, they’ve been around for years. Many youth soccer teams today often trade pins at their tournaments, and [...]

In the world of lapel pin collecting, there are certain things one looks for when choosing a pin to keep, or a pin to toss. One of these factors is the type, or style, of pin. The type of lapel pin can play a big part in selecting pins for your collection. Many times it [...]