Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Drinking horn, circa 1780s Digital
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
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Collection:
Collection of Edward Holyoke materials
Item — Box: 2Identifier: HUM 312
Scope and Contents:
Silver drinking horn fashioned from Holyoke’s watch case, engraved with the initials MHA, likely Mary Holyoke Abbot, his granddaughter. A tag attached by Edward Holyoke Osgood explains the object’s provenance. On the recto he writes: This drinking tube was made from the outside case of President Holyoke’s watch. On the verso: For Mr. Abbott – I purchased the watch from Mr. Abbott’s [sic] estate (Mr. Park of Groton Executor) Edward H. Osgood. Osgood refers to George Edward Henry Abbot, whose...