President Eisenhower’s personally-owned off-white plastic elephant figurine, measuring 1.5″ long and 1″ tall, featuring a textured finish and the elephant posing with its trunk raised in the air. Includes a detailed letter of provenance on White House letterhead from well-known best selling author Lillian Rogers Parks, who was a housekeeper and seamstress at the White House for over 30 years, from Hoover through Eisenhower. In part: “The small elephant figurine was owned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, while he was in the White House. It sat in a group of other elephants on one of his dressers. Since the elephant represents the Republican Party, it was, naturally, one of the President’s favorite symbols…When they were preparing to leave the White House, just prior to the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Mrs. Eisenhower gave the staff a few of the President’s mementos. This small white plastic elephant was one of those. On the right front and left rear foot there is a ball point pen mark made by me for identification purposes.”
