Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(GARVEY, MARCUS.) Group of ephemera relating to Garvey, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and the Black Star Line. 7 items, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1919-25

Additional Details

Black Star Line stock certificate signed by Edward Smith Green as secretary and Jeremiah Certain as Vice President. Worn on top edge; 28 October 1919 Black Star Line printed circular fundraising letter from Garvey to his stockholders, 1 December 1920 Program for a presentation by Garvey on the UNIA at Colorado College, 4 pages, 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches on one folding sheet, 23 May 1923 UNIA membership blank, undated UNIA Rappahannock Division dues card, split at fold, unused Pinback button with green, black and red stripes (the UNIA colors), just over a half-inch wide, manufactured by Whitehead & Hoag of Newark, NJ, undated United Press International photograph of Garvey at his sentencing, handcuffed to a deputy, captioned in pencil on verso, 1925.