Pair of Globe and Rocket Form Bookends
1963

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Pair of Globe & Rocket Bookends  -- Helium Rocket Fuel

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Pair of Globe and Rocket Form Bookends
Issued for National Helium Corporation: 1963
Copper-finished metal
5.5 Inches High
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A pair of bookends, each in the form of a world globe with orbiting rocket, on rectangular plinth with impressed slogan: HELIUM FOR THE SPACE AGE/ National Helium Corporation/ 1963.

This pair of bookends was issued early in the space race, apparently as a corporate promotional item for the use of helium as rocket fuel.

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