If you are shopping for a gift to give a Columbian Exposition enthusiast or just want to treat yourself to a little something during the holiday season, check on these products relating to the 1893 World’s Fair.
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We already reported on a fun new World’s Fair board game, Chicago 1893: The City Beautiful, from Transit Tees ($40).
Atlas Stationers has offered the “Retro 51 World’s Columbian Exposition Rollerball Pen” for several years, though recently appear to have lowered the price tag ($56.00 $35.00). This handsome design features the Statue of the Republic with a fanciful backdrop of the Administration Building, Peristyle, and Ferris Wheel. The pen comes in a handsome cylindrical container. Other pens in the line feature the 1933 World’s Fair and the 1871 Chicago Fire.
The Marvel TV show Loki visited the Columbian Exposition in Season 2, Episode 3 “1893” (Read our recap here), and Funko offers three characters from the show in their 1893 outfits. The Pop! Line includes Loki and Mobius (2-pack $25.00), Victor Timely ($12.00), and Renslayer with Miss Minutes ($12.00).
FEW spirits, which offers a full line of Columbian Exposition whiskeys, offered a small-batch “Cereal Killer Straight Rye Whiskey” as a stealth fall release. The bottle label features a nefarious figure carrying a scythe in front of an illuminated Administration Building. The handsome bottle has already become a rare collector’s item.
For their 2023 historical building ornament, Carson City, Nevada, offers a striking collectable featuring The Ferris Mansion, home of George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. in Carson City, superimposed in front of his Ferris Wheel, constructed fort the World’s Fair in Chicago. The ornament is available through various outlets in Carson City.
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