Rare Vtg Set 8 Old Fashioned Tumbler The Boston Globe Newspaper Brown & Bigelow

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Rare Vtg Set 8 Old Fashioned Tumbler The Boston Globe Newspaper Brown & Bigelow :
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Rare Vintage Set 8 \"Old Fashioned\" Size Tumblers The Boston Globe Newspaper made by Brown & Bigelow. Each glass measures 3 3/8\" tall and top is 3 1/2\" wide; very heavy high quality. 24 karat gold highlights. These were only given out to advertising customers and a set is impossibly rare, this might be the only one left mint unused in box in existence. The glasses are a bit dusty from decades of storage and the box has some wear and is missing 1 flap; I guarantee all 8 glasses have never been used. My 11 photos will show this great set in detail. The Boston Globe recently moved and sold it\'s iconic building located on Morrisey Blvd Dorchester Mass. The card shows this was a promotional item from Brown & Bigelow and the address is pre zip-code so we are certain it is genuine 1950\'s era.

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872. The newspaper has won a total of 26 Pulitzer Prizes as of 2016, and with a total paid circulation of 245,824 from September 2015 to August 2016, it is the 25th most read newspaper in the United States. The Boston Globe is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston.

Founded in the later 19th century, the paper was mainly controlled by Irish Catholic interests before being sold to Charles H. Taylor and his family. After being privately held until 1973, it was sold to The New York Times in 1993 for $1.1 billion, making it one of the most expensive print purchases in U.S. history. Historically, the newspaper has been noted as \"one of the nation’s most prestigious papers,\" and was purchased in 2013 by Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C. owner John W. Henry for $70 million from The New York Times Company.

Brown & Bigelow is a publishing company based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It sells branded apparel and promotional merchandise.

The company was founded in 1896 by Herbert Huse Bigelow and Hiram Brown. In 1925 Brown & Bigelow began a tradition by publishing calendars for the Boy Scouts of America, many of which were illustrated by Norman Rockwell. In 1969, as a tribute to Rockwell\'s 75th year birthday that year, officials of Brown & Bigelow and the Boy Scouts of America asked Rockwell to pose in this calendar illustration.

In 1936 then-president Charlie Ward paid the large amount of $10,000 to Maxfield Parrish for exclusive rights to his work Peaceful Valley. Brown and Bigelow also published art, including works by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (his 16-painting Dogs Playing Poker series), Rolf Armstrong, Gil Elvgren, Earl Moran, Vaughn Alden Bass, Mabel Rollins Harris, Douglass Crockwell, Norman Rockwell and Zoë Mozert. In the late 1940s, it was one of the biggest calendar printers in the world, employing some of the United States\' best pin-up artists and putting calendars into an estimated 50 million homes.

Ward served time in prison for tax evasion where he became close friends with Morris Rudensky, infamous safe-cracker. The company was also notable for the development of prototype convict rehabilitation programs through the hiring of hundreds of ex-convicts.