A Life & Legacy: The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection

A Life & Legacy: The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection

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(Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward) | Their Jefferson Award

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June 12, 03:24 PM GMT

Estimate

500 - 700 USD

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(Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward)

Their Jefferson Award

1994


Gilt medal (64 mm diameter, 6 mm depth), stamped on the obverse AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE | JEFFERSON AWARD with a vignette of the Great Seal of the United States, stamped on the reverse IN RECOGNITION | OF OUTSTANDING | PUBLIC SERVICE with facsimile signatures of the three founders of the award (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft Jr., and Sam Beard), engraved on the rim 24 KT. GOLD ELECTROPLATE ON STERLING | THE FRANKLIN MINT. Housed in a fitted blue box.

The Jefferson Awards were founded in 1972 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft Jr., and Sam Beard, with the first awards being made the following year. The awards are given in a number of categories at both the local and national level. In 1994, Newman and Woodward were jointly recognized with the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged.

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