Posted 3 years ago
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from top left down:
A) brown wooden (?) and plastic (?) rose motif brooch pin, missing its pinback. About 1-3/4" across, no markings.
B) pair of men's goldtone cufflinks, sorta art-deco rectangular shape and design, no markings.
C) embroidered silky-cloth MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY garment label tag, 3-3/4" x 2".
D) green anodized aluminum "GOOD LUCK"four leaf clover token, "ST. PATRICK'S DAY COLOMA, MICHIGAN 1981"
E) small red/white/blue/goldtone lapel pin, "VOLUNTEERS LEADING THE WAY" in star shape and flag design, made in China, still stapled in its little plastic bag.
AnythingObscure. Cool. :-)
The Louis Comfort Tiffany dome in the historic Chicago Marshal Field & Company store:
https://chicago-architecture-jyoti.blogspot.com/2009/01/tiffany-dome-at-marshall-fields-now.html
Here's an interesting five part story of a renovation of the building undertaken in the 1980s/1990s (part four about the flood was particularly interesting):
https://www.pepperconstruction.com/stories/reflections-marshall-fields-carpentry-studio-part-1
However, time and tide wait for no man, and in 2020 renovation was again undertaken:
https://www.forconstructionpros.com/equipment/article/21203781/national-demolition-association-kinsale-clears-the-way-for-chicagos-marshall-fields-remake