Mermaids and Saguaros: The U.S.S. Arizona Silver.
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By Maxine T. Edwards.
Published by the Arizona State Capitol Museum in 1994.
A beautiful, short study of the superb silver service made for the battleship USS Arizona by Reed & Barton. The service was commissioned in 1916, just a year after the Arizona herself, and cost over $9,000, much of it raised from private donations. The set, which combines nautical themes such as mermaids, Neptune and dolphins with Gila monsters and cacti, might have been lost when the Arizona blew up at Pearl Harbor, but it had been put into storage before the Arizona made her final, fatal trip to Hawaii. Used on several other ships since then, the set, regarded as one of the finest ever produced for the US Navy, was retired and returned to Arizona where it is on display in the Capitol Museum.
Softcover. 7"x10", 39 pages, color and black & white illustrations. Cover crease.
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