Household Items

Glassware

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Tumbler (Substitute). This item is included in Case G as a stand-in for an heirloom belonging to Mrs. Mary B. Allen King of Rochester N.Y. which could not be located. It was handed down from an ancestor (Peter Browne) who brought it to this country in the Mayflower. (Handwritten note following this entry: “Can she prove it?”)

Former catalog number 37c in Main Street Museum Catalog. Former catalog number C 30 (Colonial Catalog) of the Henry Perkins era in the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont.