436

Butte Mine's Union Voting Blackball Ballot Box

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:125.00 - 250.00 USD
Butte Mine's Union Voting Blackball Ballot Box
Advertising, Firearms, Antiques, Collectibles, Antique Furniture, Native American Artifacts, Navajo Jewelry, Silver, Gold, Montana History Artifacts, Navajo Indian Rugs, Taxidermy Mounts, Slot Machines, Cash Registers, Early Chinese Artifacts.
For your consideration is this Butte Mine's Union Voting Ballot Blackball Ballot Box. Blackballing is a rejection in a traditional form of secret ballot, where a white ball or ballot constitutes a vote in support and a black ball signifies opposition. The system is typically used where an organisation's rules provide that one or two objections, rather than an at-least-50% share of votes, are sufficient to defeat a proposition. Since the seventeenth century, these rules have commonly applied to elections to membership of many gentlemen's clubs and similar institutions such as Masonic lodges and fraternities. This ballot box is crafted from stained oak with a through bolt wooden hinge makes the top of the box to count the votes. There are twenty six marbles that go with this ballot box. This ballot box is believed to be from the Butte Mining industry. The measurements of this ballot box are 4" x 14" x 6".