Courtesy Baturin family

Courtesy Baturin family

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If you’ve ever seen the Kennedy Center Honors award ceremony, you can envision the rainbow ribbon with a gold name plate hanging around the neck of some of the nation’s most treasured artists.

President Donald Trump recently took over as chair of the board of the Kennedy Center, and announced that Tiffany & Company will be redesigning those medallions for the next honors ceremony.

WTOP talked with the family who has been making the medallions since the very first ceremony 47 years ago.

In the spring of 1978, James “Jimmy” Baturin, now 86 years old, said he was sitting in his shop The Baumgarten Company, known as “America’s Rubber Stamp Factory” on 11th Street NW in D.C., when he had a unique visitor.

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