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1915 Pan-Pac / PPIE Certificate of Attendance
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Here's a FUN pickup. I'm a big fan of the PPIE Panama Pacific International Exposition so I couldn't resist the holder and sticker 
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Thanks for sharing! I would have loved to have gone myself in 1915. We just don’t do large fairs like that anymore. San Francisco went all out to create a mini-paradise. And it lacked the serial killer the 1892 World’s Expo had.
Nice
Sweet !!!
That is a fabulously cool piece! I have never seen one in-hand, but they look astonishing.
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
Very cool pickup!
An great example of how original packaging can add interest to a numismatic item. I've never seen one of those before.
I would love to have that!
Love it!
BHNC #203
That is a neat piece !
I wasn't familiar with a 'zodiac' running around at the Chicago fair.......
Love it!
That is an awesome piece. Nice pickup!
Very impressive.... The first I have seen....I assume the token is gold plated....I will have to research the Chicago Serial Killer reference... had not heard of that ...Cheers, RickO
Wikipedia...."Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or more commonly known as H. H. Holmes, was an American serial killer of the 19th century.[3]
While he confessed to 27 murders,[4] only nine could be plausibly confirmed ..." Very interesting.... Cheers, RickO
Old Thread Update
I used to think it would be great to have one of these with the certificate filled in....
until I ran across this one
Those are very neat items!
See "The Devil in the White City", a book about this.
Paul Middents wrote the following awesome guide for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition (AYPE) which covers a variety of items. I really enjoyed going through it. It would be great to have these for all the expositions.
Well, hopefully there's always a group that enjoys history.
I think the type of booklet done by Paul is really important to group these items together to tell a story. I think moving to electronic publications is important as hardbound books have limited publishing runs and become hard to find.