"GREATEST GOLD CAMP ON EARTH/CRIPPLE CREEK" AMAZING BADGE FROM FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES.
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Winning Bid:
$236.00
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
5" long silvered brass badge with W&H maker's name on reverse and 1-3/8" celluloid set into front of suspended 1.75" disk. Top hanger designed as flying eagle with group initials F O E on its wings and a pick and shovel in its talons. Bottom left by shovel handle is a small as made hole, purpose unknown. A loop suspends a simulated gold nugget, very realistic and covered on both sides by tiny pock marks many of which hold tiny specks of quartz gravel. Below the nugget and spanning the links is an oval plate reading "Cripple Creek Aerie No. 37". Disk below has rim text "Greatest Gold Camp On Earth/Two Miles High". Choice color celluloid shows background mountains with foreground gold prospectors. Foreground prospector wears gun in holster, holds long-handled pick, has gold pan by his knee and holds aloft a huge gold nugget. Undated but we estimate 1900-1910. A great artifact of western Americana and among the very best metal/celluloid badges ever produced. The sole example known to us. Exc.
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