Vintage Book Pins by Lucinda Botany Read to Learn

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Vintage Book Pins by Lucinda Botany Read to Learn
Signed: Book Pins by Lucinda
Length: 2.5"
Height: 1.75"
Condition: Excellent
House Pins by Lucinda
After surviving a year and a half of homelessness in the early 1980s, Lucinda Yates moved back to Portland and started putting her life back together by waitressing.
But her true breakthrough came in August 1988, when she noticed some colorful mat boards in a frame shop’s trash can. She pulled the discarded boards out of the garbage and started cutting them into elementary shapes, eventually creating a pin that looked like a house. Yates sold the pins to a local homeless shelter for , which in turn sold the pins for to raise funds. More than 5 Million pins have been sold and 30 Million Dollars raised for non profits.
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