Banquet Hall, Mt. Vernon, VA.; C-406
Washington DC: Capitol Souvenir Company, Inc. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Post Card. Format is 5.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Front side has a color image of the Banquet Hall of Mount Vernon. The reverse has two sections. The right side has space for stamp and for an address [unfilled]. The left side has the following text In the Banquet Hall at Mt. Vernon, Va., the central ornament is the mantlepiece, of Carrara and Siena marble, carved in Italy and presented by Samuel Vaughan, of London. The story goes that on its way to America, the mantel was taken by French pirates, who sent it to tis destination uninjured whey they learned that it belonged to Washington. the large painting by Rembrandt Peale of Washington before Yorktown now hangs in the Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington. The center line text is Capitol Souvenir Company, Inc. Washington, D. C. and logo with an image of the Capitol and the text A Capsco Product. More