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A JFK COBALT BLUE DINNER PLATE.
A cobalt blue china plate, edged and decorated in gilt with Presidential seal centered on white background,

14 October 2020, 13:00 EDT
New York

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A JFK COBALT BLUE DINNER PLATE.

A cobalt blue china plate, edged and decorated in gilt with Presidential seal centered on white background, surrounded by gilt designed coats-of-arms for the 14 member states of the Inter-American Press Association, designed especially for a dinner honoring President Kennedy in Miami, November 18, 1963, 10 1/2 inches in diameter, underside stamped "Syracuse - China - 93G - U.S.A." Mounted and framed.
Provenance: Louis Ronco (catering manager at the Hotel Americana, Miami); sold Camelot: 50 Years After Dallas, RR Auction, Boston, October 24, 2013, lot 15.

FROM PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S LAST OFFICIAL DINNER. In his address that evening he spoke of Cuba and democracy, including "the promises of abundance under tyranny are false. We ourselves can prove that democratic progress is the surest answer to the promises of the totalitarians ... The genuine Cuban revolution ... had the support of many whose aims and concepts were democratic. But that hope for freedom and progress was destroyed. The goals proclaimed in the Sierra Maestra were betrayed in Havana."

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