Sliders are a popular enhancement to many baseball trading pins. They get their name because they actually slide a short distance across the main pin.

Some early popular sliders showed a baseball player sliding into home base, or a rocket lifting off into space. Yet, sliders do not necessarily have to slide along a straight line.

Designers at The Monterey Company have become more creative and made sliders arch along the side of the pin or jump across a field. Sliders can be placed just about anywhere to enhance your design!

They don’t necessarily have to be limited to the shape of baseballs either. One customer asked The Monterey Company to create a slider in the shape of an airplane. He wanted to depict where his team was traveling across the United States—on their way to Cooperstown, NY.

Sliders take time to construct and set up, so there’s a one-time set-up charge of $60, in addition to the price of the slider. Just like the main pin, sliders are priced according to quantity. For 100-200 pins, sliders cost $1.12 each; for 300-500 pins, sliders are .92 cents each and for 1,000 to 2,000 pins, sliders are only .77 cents each.

The main thing about sliders is they make trading pins look really cool! With a slider on your trading pin, players from other teams will definitely want to trade with you! Another good thing is that sliders do not wear down over time. They still look good years and years later on!

For more information on how a slider can make your trading pins truly unique, please contact The Monterey Company at 1-800-259-6496.

Posted: March 27th, 2008 under Case Studies, Lapel Pins, Trading Pins.
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Many nonprofit organizations have asked The Monterey Company to create lapel pins that they can use as donor gifts. So when donors donate, they receive decorative pins as an acknowledgement of their financial support.

One local nonprofit organization, the Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild (ARF), works to find permanent homes for animals that are homeless, unwanted, or otherwise neglected. They offer spay and neuter assistance, low-cost heart-worm testing and treatment and emergency veterinary care, among other things.

The Monterey Company created a pin for ARF that depicted a profile of a large dog’s head immediately next to a profile of a cat’s head. Below those images was the organization’s acronym, ARF.

“It was a real simple design, yet it let people know immediately that it was a group that helps domestic animals,” said Paul Stark, president of The Monterey Company, who personally supports the organization.

The Monterey Company created a one-inch die struck pin with black enamel. ARF introduced the pins at a fundraising event and pretty soon the room was filled with donors wearing the new pins.

One way ARF and other organizations can distinguish various donation levels would be to add imitation gemstones. The Monterey Company can inlay synthetic sapphires, rubies, garnets, emeralds or diamonds to create an elegant look.Adding a gemstone to a 100-pin order is approximately another $125. The Monterey Company charges $50.00 as a one-time set-up fee and .75 cents per gemstone. For instance, ARF’s lapel pin with a diamond is for donors who donate $500, a ruby for donors who give $250 and a garnet for those who give $100.Like one organizer said, “You can see how much they gave from across the room.”Help your organization raise funds with lapel pins and gemstones.

Posted: February 19th, 2008 under Case Studies.
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The call came in from a nurse on the East Coast. “I’d like to order a lapel pin with a picture of a brain on it,” she said. She worked in the neurology department of a large community hospital, and she wanted something to commemorate Nurses Week in May. As it turns out, the customer, an Registered Nurse (RN), was paying for the 100 Cloisonné pins out of her own pocket. The amount was about $300. She said she wanted to build camaraderie and morale among the nurses in her department. Read more »

Posted: February 15th, 2008 under Case Studies, Lapel Pins.
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