Ring
- Object Name:
- Ring
- Object ID:
- 2022.022
- Creator:
- Peters, H. W. Company
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- 1920-1930
- Description:
- Ring, Camp Greggmere, Antrim, NH, 1920s. Octagonal face with scrolled vine design around central image of a pine tree and text "CAMP / GREGGMERE" on blue enamel ground. Ring shanks have a stylized fleur-de-lis design. Stamped "STERLING / PETERS" inside band. Also stamped "NG" inside band (owner's initials?).
- Material:
- Silver
Enamel - Dimensions:
- H-0.56 W-0.625 D-0.875 inches
- Provenance:
- Belonged to the vendor's grandmother, Ruth Spritz Greenfield (1883-1967) of Cincinnati, OH.
In 1920, Rachel Rosnosky, Lena Seitlen, and Dora Klein purchased 67 acres of land and a number of buildings along Gregg Lake in Antrim, NH. The following year, they opened Camp Greggmere for Jewish girls aged seven to seventeen, who principally came from the Northeast and Midwest. The camp closed in 1932. The site was purchased in 1935 by Glenn Loucks and Alice Kyle, who improved the infrastructure and buildings and opened Camp Birchmere (a secular girls camp) in 1936. Camp Birchmere operated into the 1970s. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- Subjects:
- Camp Greggmere, Rings, Summer camps, Fleur-de-lis
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