Buckle (one of a pair)

Thomas Stevens Eayres, American, 1760 - 1814

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late 18th century

Silver

Overall: 3 × 2 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (7.6 × 7 × 3.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Louise C. and Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924

M.969.79

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Clothing: Footwear

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Inscriptions

Marked twice at inner edge of end and on one side: TE [pellet between, with sharp serifs in rectangle]

Exhibition History

Colonial Days, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine, July 30-August 3, 1963.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 16-June 2, 1978.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 30-June 21, 1979.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 28, 1981-June 7, 1982.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1-30, 1964.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 13-August 15, 1976.

New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-August 20, 1989, no. 29.

Paul Revere Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, Septmber 14-October 24, 1965.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1989, no. 29.

Kathryn C. Buhler, Massachusetts Silver in the Frank L. and Louise C. Harrington Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1965, p. 117-120, ill. p. 119.

Paul Revere Exhibition, Worcester Art: 1965.

Provenance

Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Worcester, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1969.

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