ANTIQUE AMERICAN TURNER FOLK ART COIN SILVER BELT BUCKLE POSSIBLE CIVIL WAR MAAS

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Belt Buckle Material: Coin Silver & Brass An extremely rare museum quality German American Turner Folk Art belt buckle measuring approximately 2 5/8 x 3 ?« inches and weighing approximately 91 grams made by C. F. Kleinsteuber, Machinist &amp Engraver (business pictured with occupancy from 1856 to 1881/1882). A very solid and expertly etched item. This buckle, almost exactly the same, and its ornamental belt is in the Oshkosh Museum. It appears to be coin silver but is untested. The backing is brass. Signed C.F.W. Maas and attributed as Charles F.W. Maas (born 1836, Immigrant 1845) There is a Charles Maas and Charles Maass (pictured document) from Milwaukee in the civil war. It is unkown if Charles F.W. Maas was a Civil War soldier. There was a Charles Maas in the 9th Wisconsin Regiment and the listed picture shows a Charles Maass mustered in as of 1863. Charles F.W. Maas ran as a Fusion Candidate for Milwaukee Alderman in 1896 (pictured narrative). A very rare item. Last origin was Wisconsin. I have a 1870s CDV photograph of a Turner in my store. Below is an overview of the Turners, the Fusion party, Charles F.W. Maas genealogy, and the same at the Oshkosh, WI Museum. Shipping includes insurance. Thanks for looking. Gut Heil Good Health Stark Treu Strongly Loyal Frisch Frei Fresh Free The Turners, or Turnverein were a paramilitary German-American athletic society, founded in 1848 in Cincinnati. The Turnvereine made an important contribution to the integration of German-Americans into their new home. The organizations continue to exist in areas of heavy German immigration, such as Iowa, Texas, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky, New York City, and Los Angeles. Together with Carl Schurz, the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States. They provided the bodyguard at his inauguration on March 4, 1861, and at his funeral in April, 1865. In the Camp Jackson Affair, a large force of German volunteers helped prevent Confederate forces from seizing the government arsenal in St. Louis just prior to the beginning of the war. Like other German-American groups, the American Turners experienced discrimination during World War I. The German language was banned in schools and universities, and German language journals and newspapers were shut down, but the Turner societies continued to function. In 1948, the U.S. Post Office issued a 3-cent commemorative stamp marking the 100th anniversary of the movement in the United States. Cultural assimilation and the two World Wars with Germany took a gradual toll on membership, with some halls closing and others becoming regular dance halls, bars or bowling alleys. Fifty-four Turner societies still exist around the U.S. as of 2011. The current headquarters of the American Turners is in Louisville, Kentucky. Beaded belts are depicted in the four extant lithographs of groups of Turners. Some are stitched with yarn only, while others are comprised of yarn and glass beads. Electoral fusion was once widespread in the United States. In the late nineteenth century, however, as minor political parties such as the Populist Party became increasingly successful in using fusion, state legislatures enacted bans against it. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the heyday of the Sewer Socialists, the Republican and Democratic parties would agree not to run candidates against each other in some districts, concentrating instead on defeating the Socialists. These candidates were usually called "non-partisan", but sometimes were termed "fusion" candidates instead. One Republican Minnesota state legislator was clear about what his party was trying to do: "We don't propose to allow the Democrats to make allies of the Populists, Prohibitionists, or any other party, and get up combination tickets against us. We can whip them single-handed, but don't intend to fight all creation." The creation of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party made this pa. Seller Inventory # 63907-2654

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Title: ANTIQUE AMERICAN TURNER FOLK ART COIN SILVER...

Publisher: 1800-1899

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