Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 277

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SIGNED BY DEBS (RAIL WORKERS.) Grand Lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen charter. Signed by Eugene Debs as secretary-treasurer and Frank W. Arnold as grand master, and issued to the officers of Bonanza Lodge No. 194 in Missoula, Montana. Partly printed document with embossed BLF seal, 20 x 16 inches; 3 pinholes in margins, early inkstains removed, minor dampstaining and wear. Np, 10 January 1884

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An impressive survival from Debs's first national union post, before his embrace of socialism, and long before his five presidential campaigns, which peaked with nearly a million votes in the 1912 and 1920 elections.