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Perfesser-Bear, me fellow Connecticut Yankee.
While excavating my storage locker I have some blocks away from the New Abode, I ran across this Hartford Courant paperweight I'd forgotten I had; it was in among my "desk toys" from when I worked. It's probably a newsstand paperweight. It could be roughly dated from when the Courant was 3 cents; my guess is it's probably 1930s vintage. [EDIT: from looking at various front pages of the Courant available online, the item's probably no later than the late 1930s, since as of December of '36, the Courant was still 3 cents, but it was 4 cents by September of '39 -- on the other end, the Courant was 3 cents at least as far back as April of '05. So 1930s would be the end point for this. Geekery.]
The brass paperweight shows the majestic Hartford Times building, which was completed in 1920; the paperweight was a souvenir from its opening. The building (surprisingly) still exists, and last I saw was in use by an arm of the University of Connecticut.
I have a thing for paperweights, with a whole lot of brass, bronze and glass ones scattered all over my bookshelves in the New Abode. I also have, on one table, a whole mess of Linotype metal and metal-on-wood blocks, one of which is a teeny-tiny Hartford Times logo.
Perfesser-Bear, me fellow Connecticut Yankee.While excavating my storage locker I have some blocks away from the New Abode, I ran across this Hartford Courant paperweight I'd forgotten I had; it was in among my "desk toys" from when I worked. It's probably a newsstand paperweight. It could be roughly dated from when the Courant was 3 cents; my guess is it's probably 1930s vintage. [EDIT: from looking at various front pages of the Courant available online, the item's probably no later than the late 1930s, since as of December of '36, the Courant was still 3 cents, but it was 4 cents by September of '39 -- on the other end, the Courant was 3 cents at least as far back as April of '05. So 1930s would be the end point for this. Geekery.]
The brass paperweight shows the majestic Hartford Times building, which was completed in 1920; the paperweight was a souvenir from its opening. The building (surprisingly) still exists, and last I saw was in use by an arm of the University of Connecticut.
I have a thing for paperweights, with a whole lot of brass, bronze and glass ones scattered all over my bookshelves in the New Abode. I also have, on one table, a whole mess of Linotype metal and metal-on-wood blocks, one of which is a teeny-tiny Hartford Times logo.
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Well, the bronze Times paperweight is absolutely 1920. Whitehead & Hoag of Newark made the Courant paperweight; alas, can't deduce when they made it based merely on that. The style of the Courant paperweight suggests 1920s/1930s, yes, but I doubt I'll be able to pin it down. Supposedly, when a rival bought out Whitehead & Hoag, they destroyed the archives.
I worked at The Travelers for about four years; the 1920 Hartford Times building was right down the street -- and designed by the same architect as the Travelers Tower. When I worked at One State Street it was only a couple of blocks farther away. I took a few pictures during the Times' renovation; I didn't know if they survived my 'transition', but I just found them on my hard drive (2012_02_10 Constitution Plaza & Prospect Street). I'll see if I have one nice enough to post.
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