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Fete to Lafayette
Date:
1824
Object Number:
PR.022.9
Medium:
Engraving

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Fork
1790-1825
Powder Box
1880-1920
Astrolabe
1850-1910
Pipe
1890-1930
Pen
1962-1970
Saint Nicholas Society Medal
1903
Mormando Restaurant
Fly crop: bird's head handle
1875-1900
Cartridge box
1855-1865
Paperweight
1880-1910
Gasoline truck
1920-1940
Shopping bag
1990-2000
Cigarette silk
1890-1920
Box/ jewelry
1910-1940
Pinback button
1952-1956
Coaster
1930-1950
Ribbon
STANLEY SIMON/ THE BRONX
1984
NEW YORK'S FAMOUS IRISH RESTAURANTS
Whale tooth
1820-1880
Queen Victoria
1950-1970
Bust
Shopping bag
1990-2000
Shoe horn
1890-1930
Lithograph Stone
1880-1920
Horse blanket
1898-1938
Pinback button
1896-1910
Women For Clinton Gore Light The Way For Change
High-back chair
1920-1940
Doll bustle
1870-1880
Commemorative cane
ca. 1884
Cards of Fortune
ca. 1890
Plaque
1852-1900
Box
1800-1840
Pen wipe/ tobacco
1890-1920
Miniature pedestal table
1915-1935
Pinback button
1944
Pin
1960-1975
Catskill Aqueduct Medal
1917
Manny Wolf's Chop House
Ballot: Robert S. York for Second Vice President
Shopping bag
1980-2000
Cigarette silk
1890-1920
Civil War token
1863
Watch Face
1880-1940
Windup toy: musician and dancer
1900-1930
Thimble
1940-1960
Tobacco tag
1870-1930
Badge
United Nations
ca. 1960-1980
Girl on tricycle
1860-1910
Blunderbuss
1760-1790
Souvenir ribbon
1877
Forage cap
1860-1875
Seal (facsimile)
ca. 1892
Watch Face
1880-1940
Handkerchief
1893
Miniature luggage (3 pieces)
1920-1940
Pinback button
1896-1910
Hard Times Token
1837
Ribbon
late 19th - early 20th century
Matchbook
1940-1945
Pen wipe/ tobacco
1890-1920
Ouija: Mystifying Oracle
1967
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Pin-back button
1976
Miniature food mold
1900-1940
Button or stud
1898-1900
Clothing hanger
1940-1960
1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition Commemorative Medal
1876
Puzzle
1960-1970
Miniature chair table
1960-1980
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
Hetchel
1751
Thames Tunnel Medal
1845 or later
David Hosack Medal
ca. 1830
Le Gai Violiniste
1897
Booklet
1939
Ticket stub
2001
Hair Grooming
1890-1920
Travel/ pencil
1940-1960
Tobacco
1910-1930
Zachary Taylor Presidential Medal
1850
Le Bernardin
ca. 1986-2007
Obama Presidential Playing Cards
2012
Ribbon
ca. 1906
Sword and scabbard
ca. 1813
Catskill Aqueduct Medal
1917
Frag. of flag flown at masthead of U.S.S. Brooklyn in Battle of Santiago, 1898
ca. 1898
Washing supplies
1890-1930
Tip tray/ coin tray
1920-1940
Washington Vietnam March Nov. 27 For Peace
1965-1975
Purse
1770-1776
Pinback button
1896-1910
Civil War tokens
1863
hand cart
1850-1875
Major General Jacob Brown Military Medal
ca. 1880
Dexterity game
ca. 1920
Andrew Jackson Indian Peace Medal
Probably 1831
Coll. of 5 coins: Nova Caesarea, 1787 (New Jersey)
2000 World Series Ticket
2000
George McClellan Presidential Campaign Medal
1864
Squeak toy (girl and nest with eggs)
1875-1900
Shopping bag
1970-2000
Box/ Food
1906-1930
Sign
1885
Utensil
1940-1960
Badge in case
1868-1930
Political button
1976
Doll robe
Gentleman's costume: 1928
ca. 1962
Button
Toy
1930-1950
Printing/ medallion
1930
Epaulets (pair) in storage box
1847-1855
Medal
1909
Pin-back button
2000
Ashtray/Coin plate
1910-1930
Dollhouse furn: desk w/shell decoration inside
1920-1940
Child's whistle
1850-1950
Pin-back button
ca. 1970
Coin: half dollar, California's Diamond Jubilee, 1935
Animal bone
ca. 1734
All Those in Favor Say Ike
1953-1961
Chin Chin
ca. 1960-1980
Johnson Humphrey Vote Democratic
1964
Frits Holm Medal
1921
Marble excavated at Fort Washington
1760-1783
Magic Dots for Little Tots
1907
Fan
1890-1920
Optical
1940-1960
Ashtray
1930-1960
Printing press
ca. 1882
Cigar box
1880-1890
Hard Times token
ca. 1837
1878 Paris Universal Exposition Medal
1878
Pinback button with ribbon
1983
Pitcher
ca. 1725-1825
Coin: half dollar, Connecticut, 1635-1935
Leg brace
ca. 1940
Music cylinder
1905-1912
Set of tea caddies in box
1850-1900
Pin-back button
ca. 1980
Watch Face
1880-1940
Miniature rug
1920-1940
Box
1940-1960
Ruler
1880-1900
National Guard Commemorative Medal
1826
Silver star badge
Shopping bag
2008
Lady's costume: 1812
ca. 1958
Button
1900
Garrison cap
1941-1945
Puzzle
1880-1900
Button hook
1890-1930
Proud/UAW/Retiree
ca. 1990
Jacknife excavated at a British Revolutionary War camp
1760-1775
Pin
1890-1920
Flashlight in case
ca. 2000
Ribbon
ca. 1879
Clam shucking knife
1850-1910
Captain Stephen Decatur, Jr. Naval Medal
1820-1881
Card case
1870-1875
The Historiscope Panorama and History of Americas
ca. 1875
Bottle Cap
1920-1960
Literary Salad
1890
Iron cross: W.1914
Ashtray/ Coin Plate
1900-1930
Blacking bottle
1850-1900
Insignia
1910-1920
Clip
1950-1960
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Centennial Medal
1927
King Cole Bar
Toy armchair
1750-1800
Pulley block
1870-1900
Jug
1950-1970
Apothecary bottle with stopper
1850-1900
Doll
1890-1920
Travel
1940-1946
Watch Face
1880-1940
Tobacco tin
1881-1920
Pinback button
1896-1910
Major General Zachary Taylor Military Medallion
1849
FOR/WILLKIE/PRESIDENT
1940
Bottle
1850-1925
Doll
1750-1800
Ribbon
ca. 1905
Calendar
1908-1919
Food spear
1940-1960
Chapeau bras with box
1870-1900
Pin-back button
ca. 1985
Comb
1780-1810
Insignia
1860-1890
Miniature coffee roaster
1900-1930
Token
Doll handkerchief
1870-1880
Souvenir cane
ca. 1904
Cap
1940-1945
Trade Sign
1871
Bowl
ca. 1848
Printer's Block
1901
Box
1800-1870
Button/ clothing
1910-1920
Pin-back button
1972
Catskill Aqueduct Medal
1917
MERCURIO
Badge: guest of central hose no.1...Oct. 26, 1898
1893
Souvenir token
1904
Token
1940-1960
Breadbag for haversack
1860-1865
New York Philharmonic Stagebill for April 17-20, 2002
2002
Fan
1920-1950
Horse pull toy with foal
1860-1890
Lamp
1900-1910
Pinback button
1896-1910
Parasol: crimson w/lace trim and bow on cane handle
ca. 1880
Button
New Tokyo
ca. 1960-1980
Chest with drawers
1800-1850
German set trigger bolt action needle gun
Milestone
ca. 1813
Tailcoat and shoulder wings
1880-1917
Clothing hanger
1900-1940
Tobacco premium
1890-1920
Box/ Collar
1869-1910
Jigsaw puzzle
1950-1960
Pinback button
1890-1920
Token
1868
West Point Sesquicentennial Medal
1952
Spoon
Miniature rocking chair
1915-1935
Tin/ Candy
1980-2000
Game of Fish Pond
1890
Pin-back campaign button
1948
Toy/ Food
1940-1970
Miniature mold
1900-1920
Pin
1920-1940
Button
1940
Jenny Lind Commemorative Medal
1847
Time For A Real Hero
2009
Gentleman's costume: 1620
ca. 1968
Fire helmet: NY Exempt Assn. WOS
1854-1880
Apple parer
ca. 1882
Coin: Georgius Dei Gratia Rex, 1723
1723
Virginia half penny
1773
Grater
1875-1925
Box
1890-1920
Cigarette pack
1952
Printer's Block
1890-1940
Moon Over Lower Manhattan skykine with Brooklyn Bridge
2001-2002
Pinback button
1896-1910
Major General Winfield Scott Military Medal
1824
Darbár
ca. 1986-2007
Pin-back button
2012
Toy butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
Uncle Sam Scroll Game
ca. 1888
Pie crimper
1840-1860
Box/ Food
1948
Utensil
1980-2000
Section of the Atlantic Cable
1887
Paperweight/ medallion
1925
Ribbon from Society of the Cincinnati badge
1785
Pinback button
1930-1950
Lamp part with wick
1860-1864
Civil War token
1863
Political souvenir
1913
Pencil sharpener
1930-1948
Lady's costume: 1685
ca. 1963
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Campaign Medal
1860
Status Quo or Ross Perot 1992
1992
Tin/ Food
1890-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Watch Face
1880-1940
Miniature book box
1910-1940
Identification Badge for Ronald R. Moser, FEMA/NYPD
2001
Keyring
1998
New-York Historical Society Commemorative Medal
1857 or later
Political button
late 1950s-early1970s
Gentleman's costume: 1660
ca. 1964
Republicans for McGovern
1972
Perfume Sample
1970-2000
Photographic equipment
1880-1920
Rifle musket with bayonet and scabbard (3)
1862
Ezra Meeker Commemorative Plaquette
1930
Home Games for Little Girls
ca. 1870
Printer's Block
1890-1940
Lace pillow
1730-1780
Photoscope
1930-1940
Rally For Peace and Human Needs/June 12, NYC/DISARM
1982
Sauk Indian Chief Keokuk (1783-1848)
ca. 1870
American Declaration of War
ca. 1917
Lutece
ca. 1960-1980
Advertising notepad
1899
Comemorative Medal
1894
Pearlware fragment excavated at Fort Washington
1740-1783
Avilude or Game of Birds
ca. 1873
Bottle/ food
1930-1950
Cue stick
Powder Box
1920-1940
Glove
ca. 1824
Plaque
1910-1940
Token
1850-1900
The Circle of Friends of the Medallion 9th Issue
1913
Baseball
1930-1950
Squeak toy (pigeon)
1875-1900
Pistol
1760-1783
Goodwill Delegation Members Medal
1923
Trade sign
1880-1910
Powderhorn
1758
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Pinback button
1920-1940
Jumping jack
1800-1820
Plate
1908
Food spear
1940-1960
Franklin D. Roosevelt Fourth Presidential Inauguration Medal
1945
Medal
ca. 1916
Tie-pin
1968
Campaign Button w/ribbons: Welcome -photo of Wilson
c. 1918
Lantern
1860-1890
Miniature armchair
1920-1940
Pen/ pencil
1930-1960
Cigarette silk
1890-1920
Ashtray
1901
Medicine tin
1880-1910
Gentleman's costume: 1690
ca. 1967
Phonograph record box
1902
Collar or cuff stud
1896-1920
Soup plate
Political ribbon
1889-1893
Box of crayons
ca. 1925
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commemorative Medal
1909
The Smashed Up Locomotive
ca. 1890
Powder horn
ca. 1860
Tin/ food
1950-1960
Iron object excavated at a British Revolutionary War camp
1760-1783
Natural History Jingles
1880
Box w/hinged lid: image of Madonna and child
1560-1570
Box
1890-1920
Child's plate
1825-1875
Plate
1900-1920
Match safe
1905-1915
First National City Bank 150th Anniversary Medal
1962
The Harwyn
block plane with saw teeth
1850-1900
Dress hat
1858-1865
Hardware Sign
c. 1900
Tobacco/ cigar ribbon
1880-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Box/ Food
1906-1920
Pull toy (ram)
1850-1900
Button
1970-1980
Pinback button
1965-1980
Emancipation Proclamation Commemorative Medal
1871
"BACKSTAGE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL"
Medicine bottle
1840-1860
Gentleman's costume: 1805
ca. 1960
Ribbon
1800-1900
Medallion
1924
Bottle/ medicine
1880-1910
Arrowhead
1500-1700
Medicine
1906-1920
Criss Cross Spelling Slips: Dog & Goose
ca. 1890
Collar or cuff stud
1896-1920
Doll
1930-1940
Sash
1910-1920
Baby shoe
ca. 1900
Commemorative cane
2003
Framed set of bone buttons, button molds, and iron tool (33) excavated at Fort H
1779-1783
Prize Animals
1883
Cigarette silk
1890-1920
Corkscrew
1800-1899
Box
1947
Bell from the ferryboat "Elizabeth"
ca. 1904
Advertising sign
1920-1950
Office supply
1920-1940
Greater New York Charter Day Medal
1898
Spindletop Restaurant
Foot warmer
1800-1850
Shopping bag
1990-2000
Puzzle
ca. 1869
Wax seal in box
ca. 1900
Box/ Food
Medicine bottle
1850-1900
Transportation token
1930-1960
Personal item
1890-1930
Doll house furniture: spindle bed w/mattress
1920-1940
Pinback button
1990
Nixon
Windows on the World
Nutcracker
1775-1875
Badge
Tailcoat
1870-1877
Navy Canvas Duffelbag c.1900
1900-1918
Box/ Candy
1910-1940
Ashtray
1964-1965
Mug/Shaving
1911
Needle case
1840-1880
Pinback button
1896-1910
Hard Times token
1837
Ribbon pin
ca. 1893
Campaign cane
ca. 1884
Pull toy: dog with basket
1870-1890
Pen wipe/ tobacco
1890-1920
Checker board
ca. 1875
Tammany Delegate Badge
1904
Pin-back button
1896-1910
Pliers (4)
1775-1795
Plate
1910-1930
Clothing hanger
1900-1940
World's Columbian Exposition Medal
1893
Faisan D'or
Apple parer
ca. 1882
Token: 1939 Convention Am. Numismatic Ass. A. Kosoff
1939
Mourning badge on cardboard: Engine Co.5...
1856-1866
Pin-back button
ca. 2001
Photographic equipment
1920-1960
Capitol Dominoes
1950-1970
Box
1920-1940
Table croquet q/box w/docu
1880-1910
Tobacco/ cigar ribbon
1880-1920
Pinback button
1980-1990
Americanism Roosevelt
Limelight
ca. 1983-1989
Coin: half dollar, Huguenot-walloon Tercentenary, 1924
Bobbin
1780-1820
Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Medal
1913-1921
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
1910-1940
Watch Face
1880-1940
Snuffbox
1800-1815
Perfume Bottle
1960-1990
Hose carriage
1890-1900
Fan
1910-1940
Match box
1890-1920
Miniature bed
1915-1935
Hard Times token
1837
Win With Taft
Ballot box
ca. 1880-1900
Miniature food mold
1875-1925
Medal: Comite Lafayette
1918
Grandmama's Improved Geographical Game
1887
Bottle/Can Opener
1910-1940
Paperweight
ca. 1882-1900
Fan
1890-1920
Chisels and punches (36)
1775-1795
Plate
1917
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
ca. 1950-1960
Medallion: Hudson-Fulton
1909
Political button
early 20th c.
Doll pot holder
Doll: woman in orange bonnet and dress
1830-1880
Badge case
Salt shaker
1893
Waist belt
1861-1865
Coin:...16??
Medicine bottle
1840-1860
Medicine advertising sign
1890-1930
Toy cannon
ca. 1900
Fire helmet
1854-1880
Badge/ medal
1910-1911
Model 1842 U.S. Percussion Musket
1849
Pinback button
1896-1910
Medal: Abraham Lincoln born Feb.12,1809
1860
Frank's Restaurant
ca. 1960-1980
Elephant letter opener
ca. 1900-1920
Bayonet
1760-1783
Romany: The New Fortune Telling Game
1899
Mi piace Ike
Comic book
1897
Ash tray/ tip tray
1900-1930
Button
1988
Ship's clock
1840-1860
Women NOW
1965-1975
Hard Times token
1840
Ribbon
ca. 1860
Dexterity game
1930-1950
Snuffbox
1800-1850
Log wagon
ca. 1901
Coin: Gold, 1852
Shopping bag
1994
Little Goldenlocks & the Three Bears: A Pleasing Game
1890
Paperweight
ca. 1882-1900
Watch Face
1880-1940
Block from Seaman's Retreat
1858
Bookseller advertisement
ca. 1760-1770
Souvenir
1990-2000
Medal w/ribbon in box: Independence Hall 1776-1876
1876
Insignia
ca. 1860s
Shopping bag
Box
1720-1790
Lady's costume: 1939
ca. 1962
Collection of campaign buttons w/sun flower edge: Victory La
Shopping bag
1980-2000
Medicine
1890-1910
O'Grady's Goat: A Merry Game
ca. 1895
Ashtray
1931
Gentleman's costume: 1775
ca. 1968
Which are You?
1875-1925
Pinback button
1896-1910
Ribbon
1856
Ceremonial New York City street sign for Frederick Douglass Landing
2005

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