SML-85  Abraham Lincoln

   
SML-85 & SML-85C, SML-85B and SML-85D -  Abraham Lincoln

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reference numbers SML-85: Abraham Lincoln (head up)
SML-85A: Abraham Lincoln (head down)
SML-85B: Abraham Lincoln pen stand (head down)
SML-85C: Abraham Lincoln (head down - Lance 6002)
SML-85D: Abraham Lincoln (head down - white cast)
description Abraham Lincoln standing at rostrum 
dimensions height = 3 3/4 inches
topics and series Topics: Famous People  Holidays  U.S. Presidents
Series: none
related or similar items SML-84 (Washington); SML-85 (FDR)
first issued/withdrawn/
discontinued forever		 SML-85: (1947/1958/-)
SML-85A: (1958/1975/-)
SML-85B: (1958/1967/-)
SML-85C: (1976/1981)  11,702 made
private issue and/or limited edition & quantity not applicable
era first introduced. Marblehead
value range SML-85: 60/80 (revised 2003)
SML-85A: 45/65
SML-85B: 325/400
SML-85C:20/30
SML-85D: Rare
auction notes none
comments/observations none

GENERAL INFORMATION  Prescott Baston designed Abraham Lincoln in 1947.  In 1958, after he had designed his Lincoln Memorial (SML-291), he replaced the head looking straight ahead with the new design, looking down.  He also increased the base size.
A paperweight/pen stand was provided on special order during the years 1958 to 1967.
     From 1946 to 1953, Prescott Baston petitioned the Guggenheim Foundation for a great to design all the presidents of the United States for use in educating School children.  The grant was never awarded to him.  In 1947, Baston designed Washington, Lincoln and FDR to demonstrate his plan.  All three designs were issued in 1947 through Carbone, a Boston-based distributor.

From Dr. Glenn Johnson's book, The Sebastian Miniature Collection.

NOTE: Figure SML-85D is newly discovered and does not appear in the first printing of the Gold Book.  It appears that some of these figures may have also been produced for a Chicago distribution and are so identified.

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