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Title: Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology
Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper No. 47 [Smithsonian Institution]

Author: Margaret Brown Klapthor

Release Date: June 25, 2009 [eBook #29234]

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Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology:
Paper 47--

PRESENTATION PIECES IN THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

by

MARGARET BROWN KLAPTHOR

18TH-CENTURY PIECES 84
19TH-CENTURY PIECES 85
20TH-CENTURY PIECES 99

ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE

Miniature ship presented to Adm. Robert E. Peary 81

Snuffbox inlaid with mother-of-pearl and horn made around 1769 83

Mark of Samuel Minott and monogram of Elias Hasket Derby on
silver tankard 83

Punch set presented to Col. George Armistead 85

Tureen presented to Com. John Rodgers 87

Gold snuffbox presented to Maj. Gen. Jacob Brown 88

Peace pipe presented to the Delaware Indians by Gen