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Marble Arch Guitar Pick

This pin depicts the iconic Marble Arch with what appears to be an amplifier.  The Arch is on a black guitar pick with Hard Rock Logo at the bottom with city name.

Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure was designed by John Nash in 1827 to be the state entrance to the cour d'honneur of Buckingham Palace; it stood near the site of what is today the three-bayed, central projection of the palace containing the well known balcony.  In 1851 on the initiative of architect and urban planner, Decimus Burton, one time pupil of John Nash, it was relocated and following the widening of Park Lane in the early 1960s to where it is now sited, incongruently isolated, on a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane and Edgware Road. Admiralty Arch, Holyhead in Wales is a similar arch, even more so cut off from public access, at the other end of the A5.

Only members of the Royal Family and the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery are said to be permitted to pass through the arch; this happens in ceremonial processions.

Back is silver with a design of pairs of horizontal and vertical guitars crossed midway up their fingerboards, interspersed with Hard Rock logos. Box has four lines including 'Limited Edition 400'. Price £9.95.

 

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