#73

Beauty Contest Silver Trophy Cup and Framed Award from Valentino
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$2,400
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12"(30 cm.) The silver-plated trophy cup is inscribed "Midway Dancing Gardens,Presented by Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Valentino to the Winner of the Valentino Mineralava Beauty Contest 1923,Miss Angelo Cucciniello". (some loss of silverplate). And with a framed certification from the Mineralava Valentino Beauty Contest announcing that Edythe Kenyon of Falls River,Mass was "one of the most beautiful girls in America",1923,with Valentino's signature.