View of one of the California Big Trees, 30 feet 8 inches in diameter ... California wood novelties. Made from a variety of beautiful, curious and durable woods, beautifully polished, showing natural colors and grain of wood. Manufactured by Geo. F. Atkinson, office and show-room No. 11 Clementia St., near 1st & Folsom, San Francisco, Cal. Address, Chicago General Delivery during World's Fair. San Francisco: Geo. F. Atkinson, n.d. [1893]. Trade card, 13.8x8.3 cm, printed on both sides, 1 illustration. Verso, captioned "California Wood Novelty specialties. Manufactured by the Atkinson Wood Novelty Works," offers thirteen products, including sleeve buttons, napkin rings, match boxes, cigar and cigarette holders, plaques, Big Tree bark pin cushions, and other items made from various woods. This card was prepared for Atkinson's exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and is rubber -stamped in red ink on the verso "World's Columbian Exposition / Exhibit Gallery Section F / Space 230, Manufacturers' Building." Master woodcarver George Frederik Atkinson (1845-1940) was born in England, and by 1880 had settled in California. The Sequoia gigantea pictured is the "Dead Giant," a tree in the Tuolumne Grove of Big Trees located near Crane Flat. It was the first giant Sequoia to have a tunnel cut for a road to pass through. In 1878, William McCarthy and brothers James J. and Dave Lumsden cut a 12-foot-high tunnel through the trunk of the burned-out Dead Giant stump so stages and wagons could pass through it. Mild age-toning, a very good copy. (#179456).
Price: $150.00
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