Miscellaneous

Dozens of ticket types were issued during the course of the fair, including entry tickets designed for special days such as Manhattan Day, or Chicago Day, standard one-day passes, and children's tickets. There were also tickets to rides or venues inside the fair that required an extra fee, such as tickets to the giant Ferris Wheel, or to the cultural exhibits that showcased the people and habitats of societies from around the globe, such as the Samoan, Lapland, or Java villages. Some were interesting and decorative, and some were plain, numbered tickets like what you might receive today to enter a movie theatre, or raffle. So in the "Miscellaneous" section we will present a few of the more collectible types of the many tickets allowing visitors to get in, and around, the fair.

Best Kept Secret In Columbian Expostion Collecting, The Chicago Day--With Phoenix--Children's Pass. The Skimpiest Print Run Of All Tickets, Including The So-Called "Key" Passes Of Handel And Franklin. Only 60,000 Of These Special Tickets Were Ever Issued, Undercutting The Handel Printing Of 100,000 By Nearly Half. Never Seen One Before? Might Not Again For Some Time. Here's Your Chance.

$219.00

Approximately 716,000 people attended the Columbian Exposition for "Chicago Day," October 9, 1893. This day commemorated the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The front features a grapic of the mythical Phoenix rising from the ashes. The reverse depicts Fort Dearborn, built in 1816 to protect settlers and encourage them to build around the fort on the south side of the Chicago river.

EF to Au ticket with minimal wear at corners and faint darkening along top and right margins.

$99.00

Columbus and Manhattan days were two of the most popular of many "Theme" days celebrated. Manhattan Day came about a week before the Fair closed and officials from Manhattan were invited to deliver speeches lauding their's and Chicago's excellences and ties. Manhattan Day with stub, About New condition. No holes, tears, stains or creases.
$69.00

A ?-of-a-kind ticket. The faint "rays" emanating from the Phoenix are missing. Never having seen a counterfeit, I suspect a print run that would have left the weaker impression was missed. There is also a bit of transparent mounting residue on the reverse.

There must be others like this, but I've seen only this one. AU because of the residue, but a collector's oddity.
$129.00

Grading guarantees the quality and future of a vintage ticket. Paper Money Gurantee is one of the two respected paper and currency collectibles grading services and they've found this ticket "Choice Uncirculated 64" and deserving the extra "EPQ" designation, which stands for Exceptional Paper Quallity.

Encapsulization maintains condition, and the numerical grade insures its value. It's a beauty. The rarest of the major entry tickets.

$300.00