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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 95290, member: 59"]I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that this might have been a pin given to (or available for purchase by) visitors to the Rhode Island state building at the Jamestown Exposition. Frankly, since we've all read what a flop the Exposition was, I would imagine that relatively small quantities (in comparison to the better attended "fairs" of the period) of souvenirs were sold or otherwise distributed. Plus, with the only identifier of where it came from being the stamp on the back, it's not a flashy, obvious "souvenir-ish" item. Thus the lack of evidence on the web.</p><p><br /></p><p>That's my thought for the day and I'm stickin' to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 95290, member: 59"]I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that this might have been a pin given to (or available for purchase by) visitors to the Rhode Island state building at the Jamestown Exposition. Frankly, since we've all read what a flop the Exposition was, I would imagine that relatively small quantities (in comparison to the better attended "fairs" of the period) of souvenirs were sold or otherwise distributed. Plus, with the only identifier of where it came from being the stamp on the back, it's not a flashy, obvious "souvenir-ish" item. Thus the lack of evidence on the web. That's my thought for the day and I'm stickin' to it.[/QUOTE]
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