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Is
this souvenir from the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. It
is made of dark gray glass, slightly concave. It depicts the
New York World's Fair Main Mall, this is written on the front
in gold. Blue skies and large signature Globe in background,
statue in foreground. Trimmed in gold.
Could be used as a tea bag caddy, tea bag holder or perhaps
it was intended as an individual ashtray. I know not which!
It
is very small and measures 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches. No nicks,
chips or cracks.
An
excerpt about the World's Fair from www.Wikipedia.org:
The site is Flushing Meadows Corona Park in
the Borough of Queens and held both the 1964/1965 New York
World’s Fair and the 1939/1940 New York World’s
Fair. Preceding these Fairs is the 1853-54, New York’s
World’s Fair, called the Exhibition of the Industry of
All Nations, located on the site of Bryant Park in the borough
of Manhattan, New York City. The 1964/1965 New York World's
Fair opened on April 22, 1964, and ran for two six-month seasons
concluding on October 17, 1965. The World's Fair took place
without sanctioning from the Bureau of International Expositions,
the only one to do so.
It was the largest World's Fair to be held in the United
States, occupying nearly a square mile (2.6 km²) of land.
Hailing itself as a "Universal and International"
exposition, the Fair's theme was "Peace Through Understanding,"
dedicated to "Man's Achievement on a Shrinking Globe
in an Expanding Universe." The theme was symbolized by
a twelve-story high, stainless-steel model of the earth called
Unisphere. United States corporations dominated the exposition
as exhibitors. The Fair is best remembered as a showcase of
mid-twentieth century American culture and technology. The
nascent Space Age, with its vista of promise was well-covered
by the exhibits. More than fifty-one million people attended
the Fair, but this was less than the hoped-for seventy million.
Fixed Price Auction # 1031504
