1927 General Motors Building American Car Manufacture Bronze Paperweight Samuel factory Keller Jacobs

General Motors Building Bronze Paperweight Samuel Keller Jacobs Owner

An item meant to commemorate Jacobs' 1927 purchase of the building, this paperweight is in fine condition and is signed on the bottom W & H Co. Newark, NJ.

There's on surface spot on the piece as shown in the images.

Overall, a nice piece of Industrial Age advertising that's seemingly scarce ... few seem to surface, the last being 2012.

From 1927: "KENDALLVILLE MAN SPENDS 12 MILLION Samuel Keller Jacobs, president of Noble County bank, Kendallville, has become the owner of the 25-story General Motors building in New York, valued at nearly $12,000,000 and occupying the entire block on Broadway to Eighth avenue, from 67th to 68th streets, the fourth largest sky-scraper in the world and the largest owned by any one individual. The General Motors corporation occupies the major part of this huge apace on a 21-year lease."

Measures: factory 4" by 1.5" wide. Approx. a .25" thick.