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Teapot - F55.312
A late 18th century English creamware teapot, c.1770, of globular form, applied floral finial, beaded edge rim, strap-twist handle, rose and floral overall design on cream.

Record Type: Object
Valentine, Sailor's - F91.8.13
Shell decoration of a basket of flowers in an octagonal shadow box. Sailor's valentine's were designed to be brought home from a sailor's voyage at sea and given to the sailor's lover or loved ones. A large number of the valentine's originated from the island of Barbados.

Record Type: Object
Valentine, Sailor's - F91.8.14
Shell decoration- "Remember Me" in an octagonal shadowbox. Sailor's valentine's were designed to be brought home from a sailor's voyage at sea and given to the sailor's lover or loved ones. A large number of the valentine's originated from the island of Barbados.

Record Type: Object
Wallet - F2013.1.1
Early Long Island leather billfold, gilt embossed with the writing "Jacob Townsend" and "Oyster Bay 1743". Two half-moon flaps create a total of four pockets for the wallet. On one flap, in ink is written "Jacob Townsend 1746". The wallet has scroll and foliage style embossed trim. Inside the wallet is a small scrap of paper. On one side reads: "John Townsond 1681" and the other side there is illegible writing and "Jericho Ny".

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Wallet - T53.102
Canvaswork pocketbook with worked name and date, "Samuel Townsend EST 1755". Accordion compartmented wallet. The wallet probably was made by his wife. Worked or needlework wallets, or pocketbooks, were fashionable between 1740 and 1790 and used by both men and women. The vertical stitch used here in a zigzag pattern is popularly known today as bargello, flamestitch, or Florentine, but in 18th- century America it was called the Irish stitch. R...

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Work, Cut Paper - F96.9.3
A late 19th-early 20th century cut-paper and shaped-paper figural construction, showing an old woman in Colonial dress, seated in ladder-back rocking chair, spinning at a spinning wheel, on a glass-domed, wood base.

Record Type: Object
Wreath, Hairwork - T60
Oval gilt frame shadow box containing oval hair flower arrangement. Some imperfections. Hair wreath.

Record Type: Object