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Cup and Stand

a) Silver cup with pear-shaped body with simple rimmed lip. b) Accompanying mahogany stand in the shape of a truncated pyramid (with the top removed).

cup is circa 1770, stand circa 1950

Cup by Joseph Richardson, Philadelphia, PA. Despite the engraved plaque on this object's stand, the maker's mark IR indicates that this was made by Joseph Richardson Sr., not his son.

58(CG)

Boxed Paperweight

A) Flat red leatherette box with gold plaque mounted at center top with coat of arms labelled "Heusch," B) Round, flat bronze paperweight, the front with raised bust-length profile of George Washington.

circa 1920

Unknown

59(CG)

Locket with Box

Vertical oval gold locket, at upper rim a pivoting gold loop for hanging, the face centering a small, inset oval image of George Washington's face (appears to be a trimmed engraving) covered with a convex crystal and raised, engraved gold rim, the image above an extensive engraved text. The reverse contains reddish-brown human hair. The engraving: "Hair taken from the head of George Washington at his / retombing (sic) at Mount Vernon Virginia October 7th 1837."

Coffin Fragment

Rectangular piece of wood with handwritten paper label on one face. Label reads "A piece of the coffin in which Genl. Geo. Washington was buried, taken from the old vault by Wm. Ingle, May 7, 1842."

wood should date from 1799

61(CG)

Medal

a) Gold medal, consisting of gold horizontal pin affixed to the reverse of a striped moire ribbon with blue center and yellow-gold edges, gathered at the bottom to a loop from which hangs a silver medallion with blue and white enamel decoration on front and the letters "S" and "R" at the sides of the square and "Color" and "Guard" at the top and bottom of the square, the whole surrounding a raised central motif of a standing revolutionary solider.

circa 1920 (?)

62(CG)

a) Turned cylinder head with central and wide inset band of silver, fastened with a small silver cylinder to long tapered, turned handle with four incised lines marking the center of its length; disc tip. The silver on the head engraved "The Color Guard, Penna. S. R. / by the Mayor of Philadelphia / April 10th, 1931 / Made from the floor of Independence Hall / Removed during the Remodeling of the Hall.

1931

63(CG)

Book

Loop handle connects to long body with section of flattened area with center rib above section of rounded body above square section before the flat shovel-shaped working surface.

18th century

America

64(CG)

Deeply framed box with molded gold frame, glass window revealing horizontal wood fragment mounted to back of box. Brown backing paper with the handwritten note: "Original pre-Revolution oak lathe found in the old Camp Hospital restoration project at Valley Forge State Park in November 1964."

lathe circa 1770; frame assemblage, circa 1965

65(CG)

Salver

Piecrust edge of six asymmetrical shells alternating with six two-part asymmetrical foliate motifs encircling series of moldings around flat central section, the whole on 3 cast hoof feet.

1804 - 1805

William Seaman or William Sumner, London, England