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.
Foldable eyeglasses with D-shaped blue-tinted lenses and similar side panel lenses. Worn by Amos Ellmaker (1787-1851) and are seen in portrait.
Provenance
Amos Ellmaker (1787-1851) wore these glasses, including during his sitting for accomplished Lancaster portrait painter Jacob Eichholtz. Amso graduated from Princeton before embarking on a long and successful career as both an officer in the army and a lawyer; rising to positions such as State Representative and Attorney General of the Commonwealth. Amos almost became a state senator as well, but lost to the future president, James Buchanan.
Reproduced copies of seals of citizens of Lancaster County, Casts were taken from documents of the Lancaster County Courthouse - deeds, justice of the peace, notary public, personal. Includes Penn's Grant seal.