SOURCES REVEALED FOR TOM MIX SCARCE 1924-1925 BUTTONS BOTH RELATED TO PRESIDENT COOLIDGE.
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$118.00
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Bidding Ended:
Friday, March 17, 2017 9:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Friday, March 17, 2017 9:00:00 AM)
Item Description
First are two of Mix's earliest buttons, each 1.25", and third is 1.75" c. 1936 when he owned the "Tom Mix Circus". We just discovered the origin of "For Vice President Tom Mix" . We will send along a photocopy of paragraph that appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Wed. June, 11, 1924 in a report on the Republican National Convention held in Cleveland June 10-13. Titled "Cards Demand A Two-Fisted Man" with text "Thousands of cards, pinned to little envelopes, were given out today. On the cards it said: 'Mr. Delegate, what this country needs is a strong, capable, two-fisted man in public office. Tom Mix For Vice President'. The envelopes contained little picture buttons of the publicity-seeking movie actor". Thus, this was a publicity stunt by Mix's studio Fox Film Corporation. Metal back has some ripples as made. Cello displays Mint. Scarce. Second button is offered with no proof but a very probable origin for the "Tom Mix Reception Committee" button made by Parisian, Chicago. Again, we will send along newspaper article photo copy from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 20, 1925. The button could have been used at one of four events that day. Article headline is "Tom Mix, Here Today, To Ride Horse Through Station And In Hotel". Article related Mix will arrive in private rail car at 8:30 A.M. with car placed "so he can ride his horse down the runway and through the station waiting room". At the Fort Pitt Hotel later that morning he met "a delegation of hometown admirers from DuBois and hundreds of theatre managers from western Pennsylvania and West Virginia." Then a parade down Fifth Avenue took place followed by Mix riding Tony through the Fort Pitt Hotel lobby and into a banquet room where he was a luncheon guest of the Rotary Club. The main event, was an afternoon parade to Schenley Park, as guest of the Spanish-American War veterans, and thousands of city children from hospitals and orphanages were brought in cars of volunteers to see him. That night, he left for Washington and a reception with President Coolidge. Scarce and NM. Circus button has two small collet dents. Cello. has tiny tan mark on "T" and bandana corner. Fine.
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