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Great Northern Railroad Collectibles Book Elon Piche 400 + Dining Car Items

$ 18.47

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    Great Northern Railroad Collectibles Book Elon Piche 400 + Dining Car Items
    This book is the definitive work on Great Northern  Railway collectibles.
    Book is 8 1/2" by 11", 222 pages. Published 1999, by the author.
    Nearly 75 pages dedicated  to the Dining experience on the road with 75 pages of everything you would find in th dining car.
    35 pages of  dining car china and  silver . The other 40 pages contain 36 photographs of actual dining car and commissary scenes(Many of these were publicity photos  of the dining car showing the arrangements of china and silver from a range of different years and patterns) There are also  a number of  food menus, and numerous  other items all related to Dining Car Food and Service.
    There are all kind of paper items including  ads, blotters, timetables, brochures, playing cards.
    All kinds of miscellaneous item examples are offered showing the full range of a the advertising the road produces, including pinback buttons, watch fobs, children's give aways, sticks, pennants, brochures,  and the list goes on.
    Actual road items are included as well : lanterns, badges, locks, switch keys, etc.
    It contains more   examples concerning Great Northern  Railroad  items that can be found in any publication.
    Ely's Northern Pacific silver and china collection, was one of the finest ever assembled, and he filled in any gaps in his collection,  with images of examples from some of the other well known Great Northern collections.
    Brand new book.