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Panama Pacific Exposition Employee Recognition Certificate (with Badge)

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / World's Fair Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Panama Pacific Exposition Employee Recognition Certificate (with Badge)
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250.00USDto i*********1+ buyer's premium (57.50)
This item SOLD at 2015 Sep 25 @ 14:28UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Beautiful certificate (printed in brown tone), for a job well-done issued to exposition employee, Frederick Rand, Badge no. 197. Badge is attached and gold seal on lower left corner. Exquisite vignettes: op left: Portrait of Christopher Columbus, engraved in 1915 by Louis S. Schofield and Joachim C. Benzing, top right: Portrait of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, engraved in 1915 by Schofield and Benzing. Center left vignette: Ornamental panel featuring oranges, engraved by Harry L. Chorlton and Edward M. Hall, 1915. A small rural home and mountain scape appears below the vignette of oranges and their foliage, while the words EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE and MINING appear on ribbonlike banners across the orange vignette. The center right vignette: ornamental panel featuring cotton, engraved by Charles M. Chalmers and Hall, 1915. A small area of factory buildings dominated by smoke stacks appears below the vignette of cotton plants, while the words ARTS & SCIENCES, MANUFACTURES and EDUCATION appear on ribbonlike banners across the cotton vignette. Center bottom vignette: Group of female figures backed by tropical foliage (one woman spinning thread, one holding a container of fruit and a third woman standing), engraved by Marcus W. Baldwin, 1915. Bottom vignettes: Ships, cupids, engraved by Chorlton and Baldwin, 1915. Bottom: Ornamental panel with lettering PANAMA. Dates in wreaths: 1904, 1915. Engraved by Frank Lamasure and Chorlton, 1915. Framed and matted, 20.5" x 26.5".

City: San Francisco
State: California
Date: 1915
HWAC#: : 32148