MORE FROM KENNEL COLUMBIAN COLLECTION: ORNATE LARGE MUG SANTA MARIA ETC #1227

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THIS TERRIFIC COLUMBIAN MUG
This mug is another of the several DOZEN ceramic, glass and metal 3D items we're listing from the John Kennel Columbian Collection. We've been working on the collection for more than 2 years and estimate the collection to have beeen 5,000+ items when we started in April 2019--and we're down to just a few boxes of items, perhaps 10-15% of the total with which we began.
This mug stands about 5 inches high and it's rather fat and broad, measuring about 4 inches wide at the top. I've tried to photograph al lof the decorations around the mug. It's in wonderful condition as are virtually all of the items from one box with perhaps 30 items. We packed the entire collection in Ohio in 2019 and then drove it back to Seattle. Still, even though two of us worked all day to wrap and pack, we had virtually no time to study and stand in awe of item after item. We only had one day to fill the rental car and hit the road.
I'm happy to share more about the ocllection if you haven't followed it as we've listed on Ebay and share editorial/non sales news in our blog,
worldscolumbianjournal.com.
Ebay only allows us to share information such as this when it is 100% NOT about sales; our Columbian blog is our way of sharing news with the Columbian collector network. I have been studying the fair for 40+ years and my forthcoming third book on the Expo will to a great degree share rarities from John Kennel's collection.
Please contact me through Ebay for questions on this item, others we're listing or if you have questions about what's still not made an appearance out of its packing box.
I try my best to estimate the ultimate weight of the box once the mug has been carefully packed. If by chance I've estimated too high, we'll immediately refund any overage. I just packaged a wonderful original medal die from the collection that sold instantly on Ebay this week. We'd estimated to ship and it was "only" .80--so we just refunded the difference to the buyer's PayPal account. We are very clear that we don't believe sellers should use shipping costs to make extra revenue. I've been buying and selling on Ebay for 23+ years and it irritates me when sellers routinely try to squeeze a couple extra dollars out of customers under the guise of shipping charges. We dislike i as buyers and we sure won't do it as sellers.
ABOUT OUR SEPT 1 SALE & FORTHCOMING 3RD BOOK ON THE COLUMBIAN EXPO
If you would like more information about our September 1 sale and my book that is scheduled to be published the end of the year, please just ask. I've never been shy about sharing a few thousand words on the subject. The sale will include some quite rare material, including several medals from the first-ever worlds fair, London's 1851 Crystal Palace. And one of the 1853 New York Crystal Palace items is a very rare original book-size guide to the exhibits. Naturally as a historian and author I gravitate to such things; it would be likely the only one of the books/guides/catalogs you will ever see from the first world's fair in the U.S., held just two years after the world's first....and 'only' 168 years ago!
We will have an estimated 350+ items in the sale, many in lots with multiple items, such as 3 or 4 medals from the same fair in a single lot. Columbian material will include the most world's fair items from any fair in the sale. Besides world's fair and exposition material we also will have items from the U.S. Civil War (from tokens to a cannon ball!) and a very scarce archive of material from the 1880s Eastman (as in Eastman Kodak) Business College in New York, among the items one lot consisting of a complete run of fractional currency--1 cent, 3 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cents and 50 cents, plus lots of individual pieces as well.