This grey braided thread graduation tassel. It is in a paper envelope marked:
graduation tassel
Senn H.S.
1945
This tassell was previously owned and used by William Russo, jazz composer, arranger, and founder of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. This was his Senn High School graduation tassel from 1945.
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