[Rarebooks] Steinbeck's Dad

[Serendipity Books]

Steinbeck (J.E.) = John Ernst Steinbeck's father.  Toastmaster, 
WELCOME celebration, Reveille Chapter, No. 47.   Three printed stars, 
five pointed, 150 mm across, edged in gold, tied with a blue ribbon, 
white card stock, fine condition.


Star 1:  WELCOME / Reveille Chapter, No. 47.  A Masonic 
fraternity.  Printed in gold

Star 2:  Officers: includes W. Patron = J. E. Steinbeck.  With Hettie 
R. Glover as W. Matron, Amelia Bell as Assoc. Matron, Marietta Keef 
as Conductress, Mary Thompson as Asso. Con.; Clara Whisman as Sec.; 
Annie Malloy as Electa; Annabelle Abbott as Treas.; Leah Bell as 
Warder; Joseph Adcock as Sentinel; Mae Lacey as Chaplain; Carrie 
Faulkner as Marshal; Miriam Pearson as Organist; and including 
Marguerite Black as Adah; Elizabeth Robertson as Ruth; Ruth Abbot as 
Esther and Liullian Lang as Martha.  All printed in gold.

Star 3: Toasts.  Bro. J. E. Steinbeck is Toastmaster.  Events, 
program of sorts follow.


An impossibly rare ephemeron, the earliest printed record of the 
Steinbeck family in California, before the move to Salinas, scouted 
by D.A. Sach.  Only known copy?  No, on another occasion, David 
scouted another set of the same stars!   $1250.00



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