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| Here is a tour book from March 10, 1928 showing a Henry Jacobs that toured the Buick factories. The link for viewing this book is at 1929 Buick 1928 factory tour story from news paper. 1923 Buick tour. |
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| This picture, and the one shown below, (from another later edition) is done a little different than my copy. This particular copy sold on E-Bay for $217.20. But I have seen them go for between $50.00 to $250.00. The name engraved on the cover of this one is Robert Leonard. See the centerfold in my edition farther below. |
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This is a copy from February 24, 1930. They added another picture or two. Some of the wording has been changed in this later edition.  |
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| This was a keepsake given to visitor's that toured the Buick factory in the '20s & '30s. This is an early edition. I have seen some later editions (shown above) with different drawings inside. This particular one "that I own" has the name K.E. Burgan embossed on the cover. You can super enlarge just about any photo on this blog for viewing small details. The way this is done is a little different depending on which browser is used. |
This is amazing. I love how the illustration style captures the factory in much the same way the artist would render some tranquil nature scene.
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Hello Gordie, I have bid on this book twice over the last 10 years but was always outbid. This is one that was posted to http://1929buick.com/gallery/tripimadehenryjacobs and I just photo shopped it to clean it up. I actually bid on this exact book. I think it went for around $50.00. I'm always bidding, sometimes I win and sometimes I don't. These souvenir books were personalized with the persons name on the front cover in gold lettering. later, Gerry
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