Collection Highlights
Slant-front desk
Date:
1777-1794
Object Number:
1947.461
Medium:
Mahogany
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view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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| Tobacco pipe fragments (5) excavated at Fort Washington | 1760-1783 | INV.6200.9-13 | |
| Framed spoons (15) and forks (21) from Hudson River steamboats | 1840-1930 | 1941.839a-jj | |
| Sword w/scabbard: eagle on quillon | ca. 1899 | 1933.126ab | |
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Spikes (11) excavated at Fort Washington | 1760-1783 | INV.6200.225-235 |
| Fire helmet frontpiece: ladder man | 1850-1900 | INV.9027 | |
| Fire helmet frontpiece: 2nd asst foreman | 1850-1900 | INV.8931 | |
| Fire helmet frontpiece: engineer | 1840-1870 | INV.9040 | |
| Shoe buckle fragments (2) excavated at a Colonial farm in New York | 1710-1783 | INV.5943.33-34 | |
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Butter mold | ca. 1825-1875 | INV.1028 |
| Button fragment excavated at Fort Washington | 1760-1783 | INV.6200.14 |
