SML-79 & SML-80 Mr. & Mrs. Beacon Hill
SML-79 & 80 Mr. & Mrs. Beacon Hill
SML-79 & SML-80 Mr.
& Mrs. Beacon Hill
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| reference numbers | SML-79: Mr. Beacon Hill
(M) SML-80: Mrs. Beacon Hill (M) |
| description | small figures of Mrs. & Mrs. Beacon Hill |
| dimensions | SML-79 & SML-80: height of each = 3 inches |
| topics and series | Topics: American
Life & Values Commercial
Couples-2 figures Series: none |
| related or similar items | none |
| first issued/withdrawn/ discontinued forever |
SML-79: (1947/1975/-) SML-80: (1947/1975/-) |
| private issue and/or limited edition & quantity | not applicable |
| era first introduced. | Marblehead |
| value range | SML-79: 70/85 SML-80: 70/85 |
| auction notes | none |
| comments/observations | none |
GENERAL INFORMATION. In 1947, the R. H. Stearns Co., the most lavish department store in Boston at that time, celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1847. They commissioned John Dahl, the Boston Herald cartoonist, to caricature "typical" Bostonians. Dahl had portrayed "Mr. and Mrs. Salton-Cabot," and Stearns renamed them "Mr. and Mrs. Beacon Hill.
He is proceeding across the Boston Common with his umbrella and green baize bag "which proper Bostonians of Harvard extraction carry." He is surrounded by squirrels and pigeons.
She is shown waiting "under the clock at R. H. Stearns." Her husband will take her to the Waldorf cafeteria on Tremont Street. She carries the inevitable umbrella. The figurines were distributed both by Stearns and by Schmid Bros. to Boston gift stores.
The Stearns sore at 140 Tremont Street and later at Chestnut Hill shopping center closed in the early 1970s.From Dr. Glenn Johnson's book, The Sebastian Miniature Collection.
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