ELBERT HUBBARD PICTURED ON PAPERWEIGHT ISSUED FOR ROCHESTER AD CLUB OUTING TO ROYCROFTERS 1911.
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Winning Bid:
$142.78
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, March 13, 2019 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
2.75" by almost .5" thick with celluloid on each side and an aluminum rim. Maker Bastian Bros. is named on each side. This very heavy piece, dated "June 10th and 11th, 1911" on each side, pictures apparent head of the "Rochester Ad Club" and opposite side pictures Elbert Hubbard, writer, publisher, artist and philosopher who was leading exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement and founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, NY. He and his wife died about two years later when a German submarine sank the Lusitania in 1915. Other than a book or photo, the only object we've ever seen to picture Hubbard. VF and displays NM.
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