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THBGold Brooch Presented to Mrs. Max Fischbein by Pancho Villa, Plus
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LiveJun 22, 2018
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Gold brooch, 1.5 in. max. diameter, with paste stones and red, white and green enamel work set in 18K gold. Back pin has been replaced. The pin was presented by Pancho Villa to Mrs. Max Fischbein, the wife of Pancho Villa's tailor.
The brooch is accompanied by a scrapbook, obl. 10.25 x 13 in., cream leather with embossed horse head and geometric designs, "Photographs" in gilt. Affixed inside the front board is an obituary of Max Fischbein along with his immigration identification ("green") card and a photo of Fischbein brothers' (Hermanos) shop. Max Fischbein, according to the obituary, was born in Erwitte, Germany in 1866 and emigrated to Mexico in 1890. He operated a tailor shop in Parral, Mexico where he became Pancho Villa's personal tailor and friend. The article notes that Fischbein used to joke that he was the only person for whom Villa would remove his guns, and that took some doing.
After the Parral store was sacked by bandits in 1912, Fischbein opened a new store in Chihuahua. In 1938 he left Mexico and came to El Paso to work with his brother, Louis. He died in El Paso in 1958 at the age of 91.
Other images in the scrapbook include pictures of the Fischbein family, buildings destroyed by shrapnel, bridges destroyed, trains derailed, armies of men both in uniform and not in uniform, presumably government forces and revolutionary forces. One image has about a dozen men on the steps of what appears to be a courthouse or other government building. Some men are in suits, others have bandoliers across their chests, an image of Fischbein working on cloth labeled "Jimenez 1898," what is likely Fischbein's first store in Parral, and a party with manuscript ID "Chihuahua Sept 24 1917." One page has Johanna Fischbein's Immigrant ID card with a newspaper article covering the Fischbein's 50th Anniversary in 1952. The photograph shows Mrs. Fischbein wearing the brooch offered here. Someone has written (in Spanish) "-este broche fue dado por Jose 'Don Villa' en Julio 1923 antes de su muerte" [this brooch was given by Jose Don Villa in July 1923 before his death]. Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula (b. 1878), and the name by which the Fischbeins knew "Pancho" Villa, was assassinated in July 1923.
Other than replaced pin, brooch is fine. Pages are separating from the album, but the photos are fine.Condition
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