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Historic silver of the Colonies and its makers (1917)

Bigelow, Francis Hill, 1859-1933 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 174

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s ini-tials J A in script,are perhaps thoseof some Bostonsilversmith, al-though the Co-lonial silversmithsseldom made thisvariety of tankard.The borders arederived from sucha piece of English plate as the covered caudle cup at Williams-burg. The scrolled thumb-piece has a fluted top.Engraved in… … 73. Colonial ? H. 9 in. 144 Historic Silver of the Colonies Jersey, by their daughter Catherine Beattywidow of General John Beatty who was takenprisoner at Fort Washington. In 1780 JohnBeatty settled at Princeton as a physician ; hewas a member of the convention that adoptedthe Federal Constitution…

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