Postby dognose » Tue Mar 29, 2022 5:49 am
The United Service Club, 16 West 36th street, presented a silver centrepiece to Major A Noel Blakeman, chief of staff in the Sound-money McKinley Inaugural and Grant Monument Parades. On the side are four shields, the first containing a twenty-dollar gold piece and the date of the sound-money parade, the second an etching of the White House and the date of the inaugural parade, the third an etching of Grant’s Tomb and the date of the Memorial parade, while the fourth incloses a testimonial of the givers’ appreciation of Major Blakeman’s “ability, sterling character and gentlemanly courtesy." This beautiful, massive centrepiece was made by the Mauser Manufacturing Company, 14 East 16th street, of sterling silver, twenty-four inches in diameter, weighs 190 ounces and valued at $750.
Source: The Evangelist - 29th July 1897
Trev.