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Lot 2239
Ten Items Associated With President William McKinley
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Includes a framed 1896 ribbon showing McKinley with his Vice-Presidential running mate Garret Hobart (10-3/4 x 6-1/4 in. overall), three boxed bars of weird soap molded as a baby whose "Papa will vote for McKinley" (one de-capitated with head present), an attractive pinback campaign button with jugate portraits of McKinley and Roosevelt, a 1901 biography of the martyred president (wear to gilt, good condition), two pressed glass trays honoring the slain McKinley (11 x 8 in.), an American transferware plate showing McKinley (10 in.), and a McKinley chromolithograph portrait in gilt wooden frame (21-1/4 x 16 in. overall).

The button, ribbon and pressed glass trays in very good condition; the transferware plate with nicks and some light wear; the soap boxes intact with stains; the chromolithograph having some damp stains in lower right.