Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology
Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology
Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper No. 47 [Smithsonian Institution]
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urkey at Constantinople in the year 1830 and to Thomas Hankey Esq^re by the Daughter of Sir Frederick and by him to Charles Alexander Esq^re 9th March, 1873.
The only information that has been obtained about Hankey is that he held an official position as Chief Secretary of Malta for the British Government.
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In 1838 the Whig Young Men of New York City presented to Robert Charles Wetmore a pair of large, ornate, silver pitchers[8] inscribed:
To Robert Charles Wetmore their late Chairman from the General Committee of Whig Young Men of the City of New York a Memorial of political fellowship, a token of personal esteem and a tribute of patriotic service 1838.
The bases of the pitchers are engraved:
Presented to Chas Fredk Wetmore by his father, January 1st, 1840.
These pitchers were made by Geradus Boyce, a New York silversmith who worked in the first half of the 19th century.
FOR SERVICE IN THE MEXICAN, CIVIL, AND INDIAN WARS
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