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10-16-2016, 06:36 PM
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I saw a postcard on ebay of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair "Grand Lagoon" with a palace or stadium in the background and gondolas on the water around it. I think it's about as close a match as possible. I don't know how to post a link to it though, sorry.
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10-16-2016, 07:08 PM
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10-17-2016, 12:23 AM
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Pardon the egregious error of our typo.
There's also the Trans Mississippi International Exposition of 1898 -- the "Omaha World's Fair" -- the only problem being that, while the TMIE also featured grandly ornate temporary buildings and gondola-plied waterways, like the 1893 Columbian Exposition and the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, it, too, included no building anywhere identified as a "stadium": http://trans-mississippi.unl.edu/mem.../TMI04521.html Perhaps Buffalo's 1901 Pan-American Exposition merits consideration as a candidate for the subject of the pin's image, since it provided similar buildings, waterways, and gondolas, plus an actual and substantial stadium. The Pan-Am's canal did not verge quite as closely on the stadium as the image suggests, but perhaps this is just the result of some artistic liberty. http://panam1901.org/graphicarts/tympalyn_map.jpg http://library.buffalo.edu/pan-am/ex...s/stadium.html http://panam1901.org/visiting/food/s...restaurant.htm Rob, every gewgaw, gimrack, and souvenir imaginable is produced for these sort of expositions.
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10-17-2016, 08:02 AM
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Upon closer comparison of the pin and the St. Louis postcard, I don't think the pin came from that particular fair. Thanks to Butch, though, I'd say it is for sure a fair/exposition pin. Who knew we were enamored with canals and gondolas, back in the day?
Value? I would still think fairly minimal.
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10-17-2016, 08:46 AM
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I figured once decided it was not a sports related item the value would be greatly diminished. If anyone wants it for the postage ($3) you can have it. Means nothing to me but someone else might like to have it.
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