Series 16. Artifacts, 1952/1976

Containers:

Box 105-109

Scope and content:

This series includes a variety of artifacts and ephemera belonging to or collected by Comstock.

Boxes 105 and 106 include two wooden boxes (undated) which contained glass lantern slides (see Series 11). One box is labeled "T.M. Darrah." Also included are a fountain pen used by Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman to sign the contract to begin building the Bureau of Mines' Appalachian Experiment Station in Morgantown, WV, with letters documenting the donation of the pen by Senator Harley M. Kilgore (1952); and a dinner plate showing a photo-like image of a priest with a group of children, from St. Albans, WV (undated).

Box 107 includes various nametags for Comstock and his wife, from a variety of conventions and meetings (1960-1963, undated); glasses and sunglasses (undated); a sewing needle pack and a mini ruler advertising Jim Comstock for Congress (ca. 1964); a press pass for President Ford's visit to Charleston, WV (1975); and tickets to the Republican National Convention (1976); among other material.

Box 108 contains two figurines and four whiskey decanters. The figurines are a coal miner (made of coal, undated) and "Morgan's Virginia Rifleman 1776" (undated). The decanters are "Old Time Coal Miner" (1976), "Coal Miner" (1975), Robert E. Lee (undated), and Stonewall Jackson on horseback (undated).

Box 109 contains six whiskey decanters: Abraham Lincoln (undated), Stonewall Jackson (undated), Hill Billy (1969), General Stonewall Jackson (1974), Randolph McCoy (1973), and Devil Anse Hatfield (1973).

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