Cane, black wood body with brass headcap. Engraved on end, "A Normal Tribute / D. M. Sensenig / Aug. 30, 1877" Wooden cane or walking stick with carving and metal adornment, smooth dark finish, tapers from .875 inches to .5 inches at bottom tip. Top 2 inches metal button top sloping in the encircle the .75 inch diameter cane. Intricate flourishes around base of button and between 4 petals pointing up from the base. 1.5 inch tip banded in white metal; .125 inches of metal tip shows.
A Silver kugel in grape cluster form, silvered interior. Mold-blown glass is well formed. Top has patterned brass cap with wire hanging ring. 6.5" x 4.5"
B Green kugel in grape cluster form, with silvered interior. Mold-blown glass is well formed. Top has patterned brass cap with wire hanging ring. 5 x 3.5"
C Gold kugel with silvered interior, in grape cluster form. Mold-blown glass is well formed. Top has patterned brass cap with wire hanging ring. 5 x 3.25"
D Bag of twisted glass cylinders with tapered ends. One end twisted into a circle for metal hook.
Spring loaded metal frame for parachute made by Pennsylvania Scale Company and Eagle Parachute Company, Lancaster, PA . "This mechanism released a small chute which in turn released the mechanism in the main 'chute.
During WW II, The PA. Scale Company in Bareville, under a subcontract employed about 5 men to solder small pieces on the ends of this parachute opener. Eagle supplied the pieces and PA Scale Company did only the soldering. After this work was done, the openers were sent back to the North Queen factory for further assembly." (Written by George H. Harsh, Lititz, PA,)
Wooden gavel with metal plate, engraved "To Joe Wissler from his fellow Blackstonians, Dec. 12, 1941".
Provenance
Joseph Buch Wissler attended Lititz H.S., graduated from Franklin & Marshall College and earned his law degree from Harvard. He was Dist. Attorney of PA from 1924 to 1928. Elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1941 and served in that position for 29 years. F&M presented him with an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1952.
Pastel drawing of Ann Slaymaker O'Reilly by Florence Starr Taylor.
Description
Pastel drawing of Ann Slaymaker O'Reilly by Florence Starr Taylor. Woman is seated, shoulder length dark hair, brown eyes. String of pearls around neck. Black and red off-shoulder dress. Signed "FLORENCE / STARR / TAYLOR / 1946" lower right corner.
Ann Slaymaker, born November 13, 1925 was the daughter of S.C and Martha Slaymaker.
Thin sheet of wood with angled corners broken into two pieces by a horizontal crack . A pasted 9.25 x 6.875-inch page of newsprint dated "1870" advertises "Furniture, Upholstering, Bedding & House Furnishing Goods" available at A.K. Hoffmeier's 23 East King Street store in Lancaster, PA. "Cork shavings sold by the pound. Also hair, husk, excelsior (sic), spring, rep, hair cloth, &c....Venetian blinds...children's carriages...express wagons, carts, barrows, gigs, rocking horses, sleighs, velocipedes, &c." Page was printed by Wylie & Griest's Inquirer Steam Job Printing Office and Book Bindery, No. 38 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa.
Date Range
1870
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
Island 4
Storage Cabinet
Unit 20
Storage Shelf
Shelf 2
Storage Container
Box 0320
Object Name
Sign, Advertising
Height (cm)
24.765
Height (ft)
0.8125
Height (in)
9.75
Width (cm)
20.32
Width (ft)
0.6666666667
Width (in)
8
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2019-04-01
Condition Notes
Two pieces and knot hole.Tape marks on 4 corners and along edges at crack. Knot in wood fell out taking part of paper with it. Browning and some spots on newsprint.
