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#47 - Antique 1912 - Brass & Blue Enamel PORTLAND Souvenir ROSE FESTIVAL PIN

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Souvenirs & Travel Memorabilia Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:30.00 - 100.00 USD
#47 - Antique 1912 -  Brass & Blue Enamel PORTLAND  Souvenir ROSE FESTIVAL PIN
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Attractive Portland 1912 Blue Enamel Screw back Rose Festival Pin.
This would have been the Fifth Annual Official Rose Festival, held June 10, 1915, in the City of Roses.

Apparently it started off when a lady who had a large rose garden invited some guest to her yard back in 1888 and caught on from there.

It is in excellent condition and a pretty little enamel pin.
Nice condition overall brass is still quite bright, original screwback and measures 16mm in diameter. No damage to the enamel.

Here is some brief history;

History;
The Portland Rose Society, founded by Georgiana Pittock and friends in 1888, began with a backyard rose show in Pittock's garden.

The annual fundraising event drew more crowds each year.

By 1904, the rose society was hosting its annual rose show along with additional festivities, including a parade and pageant.

In 1905, Portland Mayor Harry Lane is remembered for his rousing speech at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, telling the large crowd that Portland needed a "festival of roses".

In 1906, the first Rose Festival and Flower Parade was held in Portland.

Pittock and neighbors contributed roses from their gardens to decorate floats, wagons, people and horses for the parade.

In 1907, Portland hosted its first official Portland Rose Festival.

The Grand Floral Parade is the centerpiece of the festival and the second largest all-floral parade in the United States after the Tournament of Roses Parade.

More than 500,000 spectators line the route, making this flower parade the largest single-day spectator event in Oregon.

The first parade, in 1907, was called the Rose Carnival, but eventually came to be known as the Rose Festival Parade and later still the Grand Floral Parade.

The 1907 festival also included an "electric parade" with illuminated floats; this evolved into the Merrykhana Parade but after a two-season suspension was renamed the Starlight Parade in 1976.