Early 1900s Chicago Illinois Federal Building Post Office Anchor Paperweigh
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Here is an amazing and rare find! An old paperweight shaped like an anchor with shield shaped emblem of one of the old Chicago Post Office Buildings. The building is the Federal Building built on Dearborn, Adams, Jackson, and Clark) completed in 1905. It was designed by Henry Ives Cobb. This building housed Chicago’s central post office until the Old Chicago Main Post Office Building opened in 1934. The building was demolished in 1965 to make way for the current Federal Center designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It weighs about 4.5 ounces