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Condition: Light wear. Light yellowing on the covers.
Printed by Shreve & Co. of San Francisco, whose name is impressed into the bottom of the back cover – see close-up scan, above.
This item is made up of five parts:
1 - A firm, embossed, color printed cardboard cover that measures about 5 3/4 ” x 7 1/4” when the menu is closed.
2 & 3 - An eight-page (two sheets of paper, folded) insert with the event info on the first page, a list of the visiting commissioners on the third page, the menu on the fifth page, and a space for “Autographs” on the seventh page.
4 - The silver-ish colored ribbon holding the other two pieces together.
5 - A loose, very thin sheet of protective paper that I imagine was intended to prevent the transfer of autograph ink to the page opposite.
The Event – “Banquet to the Honorary Commercial Commissioners of the Republic of China, May the seventh, nineteen hundred and fifteen, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco”
The Menu – “Tartines / Crab Louis en Supreme / Ripe Olives / Assorted Nuts / Green Turtle, Madeira / Sweetbreads and Fresh Mushrooms under glass Lucullus / Breast of Pheasant Ambassador / Potatoes Nana / Malaga Grapes / Celery Victor / Orange Surprise, Ritz / Corbeille de Frivolettes / Coffee / Gibson / Mt. Hamilton Riesling / Cresta Blanca St. Julien Souvenir / Golden State Champagne”
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