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Silver Plated Leadville, Colorado Match Safe (Pan Pacific Exposition)

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Match Safes Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 100.00 USD
Silver Plated Leadville, Colorado Match Safe (Pan Pacific Exposition)
SOLD
85.00USD+ (17.85) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2017 Jul 08 @ 13:35UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Engraved "Compliments of / Thee Saratoga / Merchantile Co. / Howard Griswold, M'G'R / Leadville, Colo." On the reverse is the Electric Tower of the Pan Pacific Exposition held in Buffalo New York in 1901. The case is 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches. The Exposition is remembered because President William McKinley was shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, at the Temple of Music on September 6, 1901. The President died eight days later on September 14 from gangrene caused by the bullet wounds.



On the day prior to the shooting, McKinley had given an address at the exposition, which began as follows:



"Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the world's advancement. They stimulate the energy, enterprise, and intellect of the people; and quicken human genius. They go into the home. They broaden and brighten the daily life of the people. They open mighty storehouses of information to the student." State: City: HWAC#: 48627 Date: 1901