Collection Highlights
Pewterers' banner
Date:
1788
Object Number:
1903.12
Medium:
Silk, paint
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Paperweight
Object Number:
2002.1.32
Date:
ca. 1880-1940
Medium:
Glass, paper, leather
Description:
Clear glass paperweight with a leather covered card glued to the bottom that reads through the glass " 'Hang sorrow:care will kill a cat, and therefore let's be merry'/ Charles Logue, Jr./ representing/ D.S. Andrus & Co./ 17 West Third Street/ agents for/ Steinway Pianos and Domestic Sewing Machines." with a picture of a cat's head on the left.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
