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My Pan-Pac Octagonal Just got a friend
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No, not the round version, but still rare, just added this badge medal from the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exhibition courtesy of NEN and gang.
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But this thread is useless without pix of your Pan-Pac octagonal.
I wanna see the owl.
<< <i>I have one of those that my great great grandmother bought at the fair - I wished she had bought the real $50 but alas not to be. >>
Wow, love the personal provenance that would go with having one passed down in the family. Suffice it to say though that in the opinion of NGC, at least for an MS60, the medal you have is rarer than the real $50. Per link under the Sheldon Rarity Scale an R6 is described as, "Very rare - almost never seen, and only one may be offered for sale in a year's time."
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<< <i>I have one of those that my great great grandmother bought at the fair - I wished she had bought the real $50 but alas not to be. >>
Wow, love the personal provenance that would go with having one passed down in the family. Suffice it to say though that in the opinion of NGC, at least for an MS60, the medal you have is rarer than the real $50. Per link under the Sheldon Rarity Scale an R6 is described as, "Very rare - almost never seen, and only one may be offered for sale in a year's time."
Rarity Scales >>
I have more of her stuff in my house now than anyone else's. She passed away in 1954 at the age of 82. She was a well known socialite during the late 19th century and early 20th, and I have photographs of her with President McKinley, "Death Valley"Scotty etc. She had nice furniture, Stickley mission style rockers, cameras(I have a Brownie she purchased in November 1915 that still works). My favourite stuff though are the photographs, switch keys, passes etc she kept from her 4-5 year marriage to one of the SPRR magnates in the very early 20th century. She lived in SLC during the construction of the SLC causeway and has literally hundreds of photographs of the engineering projects, the ships, boats, workhouses, camps etc. I do have some coins from that era that she kept, mostly half dollars and some Mexican coins. In 1910 she met and married my great great grandfather and they bought a ranch in the central valley of CA and had a family and retired.
Love it !
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<< <i>I have one of those that my great great grandmother bought at the fair - I wished she had bought the real $50 but alas not to be. >>
Wow, love the personal provenance that would go with having one passed down in the family. Suffice it to say though that in the opinion of NGC, at least for an MS60, the medal you have is rarer than the real $50. Per link under the Sheldon Rarity Scale an R6 is described as, "Very rare - almost never seen, and only one may be offered for sale in a year's time."
Rarity Scales >>
I have more of her stuff in my house now than anyone else's. She passed away in 1954 at the age of 82. She was a well known socialite during the late 19th century and early 20th, and I have photographs of her with President McKinley, "Death Valley"Scotty etc. She had nice furniture, Stickley mission style rockers, cameras(I have a Brownie she purchased in November 1915 that still works). My favourite stuff though are the photographs, switch keys, passes etc she kept from her 4-5 year marriage to one of the SPRR magnates in the very early 20th century. She lived in SLC during the construction of the SLC causeway and has literally hundreds of photographs of the engineering projects, the ships, boats, workhouses, camps etc. I do have some coins from that era that she kept, mostly half dollars and some Mexican coins. In 1910 she met and married my great great grandfather and they bought a ranch in the central valley of CA and had a family and retired. >>
Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of an interview I heard last week on National Public Radio. The creator of "Back to the Future" was commenting how the idea for the movie came out of his discussing with a friend the question of whether if they had known their parents as teenagers whether they would have been friends with their parents.