1925 GAR REPRESENTATIVE BADGE - 59TH NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT, GRAND RAPIDS, MI / GEISELMAN COLLECTION

$150.00 SOLD
Originally $225.00

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Item Code: M17072

4 1/2" x 2" badge. At top is a wingspread eagle sitting on crossed cannons with a cavalry sabre in its talons. Pin is present on reverse. Suspended from the back is a dark gold ribbon. Attached to the top portion by small chain links is an oval shaped bar with "REPRESENTATIVE" in blue, and "GRAND RAPIDS, MICH." At center are the ornate letters "G A R" in red, white and blue enamel. Below is a silver colored bar with the year "1925"; at center is the depiction of a wolverine inside a laurel wreath. The lower brass circular drop features a bust of "COMMANDER IN CHIEF - L.F. ARENSBERG". On the reverse is "59TH NAT'L. ENCAMPMENT GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SEPT. 1925" inside a wreath.

The Horse Soldier is pleased to offer a number of items from the John P. Geiselman collection, a collection that was on display for many years at the Geiselman Country Store Museum on Barlow - Two Taverns Road. Geiselman began his collecting as a child in the early 1920s, and during the pre-World II period had access to artifacts that had been purchased earlier at the estate sales of the Trostle, Rogers, Rose, Weikert, and Wentz farms - local properties that figured prominently in the battle and its aftermath. During this period he had access as well to the Hill , Plank, and Stewart collections, and was able to acquire other items that had been sold from turn-of-the-century relics establishments such as the Danner, Ziegler, and Oak Ridge Museums. Furthermore, Geiselman carefully documented most artifacts, and collectors perusing the list will be able to note, in many instances, not only the source of the relic and the date of its recovery, but also the part of the battlefield from which it came. In other words, his collection is the last major grouping of Gettysburg artifacts assembled and documented by a local resident.

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