Boston Garden Parquet Floor Cufflinks - New Arrivals
These sterling silver cufflinks are crafted with authentic Boston Garden parquet baskeball floor that was in use from 1946-1999. The parquet floor pieces feature the scuffs and scratches of the floor on which the Celtics won 16 of their 17 Championships. After the original Boston Garden was demolished in 1999, Tokens & Icons acquired the last 9 of 11 panels of the parquet floor directly from TD Garden. Tokens' artisans were challenged to create a parquet inlay in just 3/4" square; each cufflink is unique and features slight tonal variations with each pair. Officially licensed by TD Garden, each pair of cufflinks comes gift-boxed with a Certificate of Authenticity.Boston Garden opened in 1928 and was originally named Boston Madison Square Garden as it was designed by Tex Rickard built the third Madison Square Garden. Rickard, who also promoted boxing, aimed to build an arena with this sport in mind. Thus fans were very close to the action and this, combined with the Celtics' supposed ability to know where a ball would bounce on the iconic parquet floor, was thought to have contributed to the team's hometown advantage. The parquet floor was originally built in the Boston Arena and moved to the Garden in 1952. When Boston Garden closed in 1999, Tokens & Icons was selected by the arena's management to celebrate the storied basketball floor. Eleven five-foot square pieces remained and Tokens was entrusted with nine of them. These parquet panels have been used to craft this item. Boston Garden hosted nineteen NBA Finals, four NBA All-Star games and was the first arena to host the NBA and Stanley Cup Finals in 1957. Approximately 3/4" x 3/4", Made from authentic Boston Garden parquet basketball floor, Set in Sterling Silver with bullet back closure and hallmarked "Boston Garden" on the back side, Officially licensed by TD Garden, Comes gift-boxed with a Certificate of Authenticity,
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Istanbul’s new airport does not need additional financing and Turkish Airlines will not be a partner in the airport consortium, the chairman of airport shareholder Limak Holding told Reuters, The $12 billion airport project was declared open in October by President Tayyip Erdogan but its full operation has been delayed several times, boston garden parquet floor cufflinks most recently this week to April 7, Limak Holding, Kolin Insaat, Cengiz Insaat, Mapa Insaat, and Kalyon Havacalik ve Insaat, each hold 20 percent of the shares of the consortium building the airport..
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative’s office said on Wednesday it would move to formally suspend a scheduled tariff increase on Chinese goods “until further notice” following President Donald Trump’s decision to delay his Friday deadline for a U.S.-China trade deal amid progress in their talks. The statement was issued after U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer’s testimony to the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, in which he said USTR was following a legal process to implement the delay.
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