National Cherry Festival pin sales king Peter Garthe is the festival's 23-time sales champion - and he has the records to prove it. Garthe provided The Ticker with a handwritten copy of his sales number for every year since he first began in 1991.

1991: 600 pins sold, total $600 ($1 pins)
1992: 2,600 pins sold, total $2,600 ($1 pins)
1993: 7,825 pins sold, total $7,825 ($1 pins)
1994: 8,120 pins sold, total $8,120 ($1 pins)
1995: 8,550 pins sold, total $8,550 ($1 pins)
1996: 10,162 pins sold, total $10,162 ($1 pins)
1997: 10,489 pins sold, total $10,489 ($1 pins)
1998: 13,416 pins sold, total $13,416 ($1 pins)
1999: 16,000 pins sold, total $14,957 ($1 pins; some packaged in promotional sales)
2000: 11,400 pins sold, total $20,218 ($2 pins; some packaged in promotional sales)
2001: 12,812 pins sold, total $22,408 ($2 pins; some packaged in promotional sales)
2002: 8,184 pins sold, total $24,552 ($3 pins)
2003: 10,009 pins sold, total $30,027 ($3 pins)
2004: 9,064 pins sold, total $27,192 ($3 pins)
2005: 12,411 pins sold, total $37,233 ($3 pins)
2006: 11,142 pins sold, total $33,426 ($3 pins)
2007: 7,292 pins sold, total $36,460 ($3 pins)
2008: 5,740 pins sold, total $28,700 ($5 pins)
2009: 5,088 pins sold, total $25,440 ($5 pins)
2010: 4,822 pins sold, total $24,411 ($5 pins)
2011: 3,888 pins sold, total $19,440 ($5 pins)
2012: 7,268 pins sold, total $21,804 ($3 pins)
2013: 6,102 pins sold, total $26,026 ($3 and $5 pins)
2014: 5,045 pins sold, total $25,225 ($5 pins)
2015: 5,299 pins sold, total $26,495 ($5 pins)

2016: Garthe broke the pre-sales record this year, having already sold 1,514 pins before the festival started. The previous pre-sales record was 1,378 in 2007. That brings Garthe's lifetime total sales to 204,852 pins. He is just shy of 10,000 gold pins sold - a milestone he hopes to hit this year.