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San Juan County Book Company, 1988. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
The Remarkable Railroad Passes of Otto Mears by Strong, William K - 1988
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Silverton CO: San Juan County Book Company, 1988. Pamphlet. vii, 35p., illustrated with exhibit photography and printed professionally using alkaline clay-coated paperstock; 8.5x5 inch staplebound pamphlet with a cover printed on metallic-silver cardstock. Front cover has a light paperclip dent, back cover a small seller's sticker; otherwise completely unblemished, a sound clean copy. Mears owned several railroads, several mines, and a fund of energy. Free passes (and half-passes) were a lagniappe of the day and Mears commissioned very special ones. A man of many talents. When a man of the cloth protested he should be issued a fully free pass, not a half, citing the passage to freedom of the children of Israel out of Egypt, Mears answered personally, and his response was delicious.
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Silverton, Colorado: San Juan County Book Company, 1988. First printing. Softcover. Very good. Paperback. vii, 35 pages. Illustrated. Gray glossy softcover with illustration and title on front cover.
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Silverton, Colorado, USA: San Juan County Book Company, 1996. Reprint . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 220mm x 140mm x 5mm. 35 Pages with Black/White Photos. This book gives the history of the unusual silver annual railroad passes given by Otto Mears for his Silverton Railroad and Rio Grande Southern Railroad in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. It also lists the passes issued by year, serial number and name of recipient, with brief biographical information on most recipients. More recently discovered passes are listed in an insert. Pictures of the three widely-distributed sterling silver passes for 1889, 1890 and 1892 are in the book, as well as the 1888 -buckskin- pass printed on leather and the prototype 1893 stamped silver pass. The silver passes are highly prized by railroadiana collectors, especially the delicate 1892 filigree pass for both railroads. Silverton Specialties Co. offers reproductions of the four silver passes, three as belt buckles and the 1890 as a key tag.
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