Gavel
- Object Name:
- Gavel
- Object ID:
- 1960.217.05
- Date:
- 1918
- Description:
- Gavel, made of wood from Benedict Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet. Carved and worked head and handle. Medium-brown wood. Head is roughly rectangular and is tapered from outward edge to bottom edge in thickness. Outward edge is slightly curved and has bevelled edges that flare out slightly toward outer ends. Handle is rectangular in cross-section with rounded edges. Sliver inlaid band near end that is slightly over one inch wide. Two small holes near outer edge on sides where there is probably a flush pin that keeps it in place. Two silver plates on sides of gavel head that are same shape as head; held in place by silver escutcheon pins. Engraved on one side: "PRESENTED TO / SENATOR GALLINGER." Below that is simulated ribbon with "FOREMOST IN ADVOCACY OF / AMERICAN MARINE INTERESTS BY / JOHN E. MILHOLLAND, / WASHINGTON, 1918." Other side: "THE BEGINNINGS OF / THE UNITED STATES NAVY / BEING A BIT OF ARNOLD'S GUNBOAT FLEET / WITH WHICH HE / FOUGHT BURGOYNE ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN."
- Material:
- Wood
Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-3.1 L-10 D-1.1 inches
- Provenance:
- This is part of a collection of objects owned by Jacob H. Gallinger (1837-1918), who served in United States Senate from New Hampshire, 1891-1918. The collection was given to the New Hampshire Historical Society by Senator Gallinger's daughter, Katherine C. (Mrs. Harry A.) Norton (1866-1957).
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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