COMMUNIST PARTY DELEGATE FREE BROWDER CONGRESS LITHO BUTTON.
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Winning Bid:
$389.40 (Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bids:
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Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, March 21, 2023 9:00:00 PM)
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Auction:
Auction #237 - Session I
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Item Description
2.25" w/union bugs at 2 and 10 o'clock. Scattered tiny indentations and light scratches. Area of paint loss at the bottom on text "Browder Congress". VG. "60140" was Earl Browder's prison serial number. Convicted in 1917 of conspiracy against draft laws and sentenced to 16 months in prison. Imprisoned again in 1919. Ran for US representative from New York while in prison in 1930. Pardoned in 1933. Ran for president on Communist ticket 1936-1940. Arrested in 1939 for a passport violation and convicted and sentenced to 4 years in prison (sentence was commuted after 14 months). Expelled from Communist Party in 1946.
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