Hairpin
- Object Name:
- Hairpin
- Object ID:
- 1987.082.13
- Date:
- 1878
- Description:
- Hairpin. Owned by Abbie Jane (Webster) Appleby (1853-1918) of Concord, NH. Stamped silver foil ornament decorated with grape clusters and leaves. Two-prong pin attached to foil with solder.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- H-5.4 W-3.7 D-0.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Given to Abbie Jane Webster as a gift by Governor Benjamin F. Prescott on her marriage to Alexander B. Appleby on September 11, 1878. Mary L. Noyes Prescott (1839-1924) (Mrs. Benjamin F.) was maid of honor at the wedding.
Calvin Clifford Webster (1827-1906) was a grocer, N.H. state representative, member of Concord's common council, and captain in the Governor's Horse Guards. He married his first wife, Jane Watkins Warner (1827-1854) in 1849. Their daughter, Abbie Jane (Jennie) was born in 1853. She married Alexander B. Appleby in Concord in 1878 and had a daughter, Jennie May, who left these items to the donor. Gift includes four letters from Calvin C. Webster to Jane W. Warner, 1845, and marriage certificate of Alexander Bradford Appleby and Abbie Jane Webster, Concord, 1878 (NHHS mss.). - Credit Line:
- Gift of John C. Taylor
- Subjects:
- Hair ornaments
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