Award for Talent Show Contest Winner, 1954

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A Talent Contest Winner Award from 1954. The award has tall wood base with metal theatrical masks on the top. The base includes a wood stepped platform at the bottom. In the center, a tall rectangular wood pillar rises with attached wood ribbed columns on either side. In the front of the pillar is a gold eagle perched on an orb. The eagle has its wings spread and looks to the right. Attached to the front of the pillar is a metal plaque with an added triangle at the top below which is etched and reads: [Talent Contest / 1954 / Winner]. Above the plaque, on the tallest pillar, the theatrical masks are posed one on top of the other. Behind the masks is a scroll, wrapping from the upper left to the lower right.

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