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WIWisconsin Copper Bell

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
WIWisconsin Copper Bell
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Holabird-Kagin Americana Office
3555 Airway Drive Suite#309
Reno, NV 89511
Thursday April 11, 10am-6pm
* Preview also available by appointment

Live Auction
Friday & Saturday
April 12-13, 2012
9am PDT starting time, both days

Location
Atlantis Casino & Resort
Grand Ballroom #4
3800 S. Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89502

Lot Pick Up
Holabird-Kagin Americana Office
3555 Airway Drive Suite #309
Reno, NV 89511
Sunday April 14th, 10am-1pm

Cast engraved miniture copper bell, commerorating Friends of La Follette Mesaba (sic) Range Miners. The Mesabi Iron Range, a vast ore-producing region in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, was worked for decades in the late 1800`s and early 1900`s. La Follette ran as a progressive candidate in the 1924 Presidential election. He gave a speech to a Miners` hall in Wisconsin, and was presented this bell. Robert M. La Follette Sr. was a US House representative from 1885 to 1891, and became Wisconsin`s governor in 1901, through 1906. HKA#62548