14289. [paperweight] Race Point Life Saving Station with Keeper Samuel O. Fisher c.1900.
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14289. [paperweight] Race Point Life Saving Station with Keeper Samuel O. Fisher c.1900.
14289. [paperweight] Race Point Life Saving Station with Keeper Samuel O. Fisher c.1900. Heavy glass paperweight featuring an early c.1910 photograph of the Race Point Life-Saving Station and Keeper Fisher on Cape Cod. This rare item features a good image of the life-saving station with an inset of Keeper Samuel O. Fisher. The Race Point Life Saving Station was one of the original nine stations erected on Cape Cod in 1872. It east about 1 ½ miles east of Race Point Lighthouse, at a treacherous point that has seen many wrecks over the years. By 1902, Keeper Samuel O. Fisher had been in the Life-Saving Service for twenty-three years, eight as a surfman at Peaked Hill Bars Station and fifteen as keeper at Race Point Station. During Keeper Fisher’s tenure at Race Point, more than ninety-two vessels met with disaster near the station. Nice early Life-Saving Service item, clear, but somewhat faded with time. Paperweight measures 3” x 4 ¼” x 5/8”. Manufactured by A. C. Bosselman & Co. Inc. New York Rare piece. (VG). $74.