Vintage 1980s Bot Eye Gross-Out Pin 🥃 Bulging Bloodshot Bug-Eyes and Manic Grin, Pin-Back Button in the 80s Gross-Out Spirit art_deco_label and give American consumers something

and give American consumers something to buy

so an unmarked figure is the rule here rather than the exception

and cuttings clipped from periodicals and pasted in alongside handwritten annotations

the absence of Victorian fussiness

Gustav Baumgardt — who had started there at age thirteen — kept the trade alive until he retired in 1961 after sixty-eight years in the business

Vintage 1980s Bot Eye Gross-Out Pin 🥃 Bulging Bloodshot Bug-Eyes and Manic Grin, Pin-Back Button in the 80s Gross-Out Spirit art_deco_label and give American consumers somethingA Grin So Big Its Eyes Popped Out Meet "Bot Eye" a manic, beaming, absolutely unhinged face whose two bloodshot eyeballs have bulged so far out of their sockets they look ready to launch. It is the pure, joyful, wide awake energy of the 1980s gross out craze compressed into a single grinning face, printed on a vintage pin back button from the exact moment when "gross" was the highest praise a kid could give a toy. He is named right on the button, he