The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-05-11
RELICS OF WASHINGTON.
They Are Sold at Philadelphia
at TrifiinG Figures.


PHILApELpmA, April 3d. The
final sale of the Washington relics
and mementos owned by Lawrence
Washington, Bushrod G. Washing
ton, Thomas b. Washington and J.
r.. c. Lewis, embracing large
number of personal relics of the
first President, and q rare collec-
ton of Americana, took place here
yesterday and this evening. The
prices ranged high above tho aver
age generally realized at sales OF
Washington relics. The heaviest
buyers were several New York
dealers, who secured the cream Of
the collection sold to-day.
The first article offered was the
original will of John Washington,
George Washington's great-grand-
father, dated Washington Parish,
County of Westmoreland, in Vir-
ginia, September IL, 1875.
The document went to q Mr.. Col
Inns for 500. The will of Angus
tine Washington, father Of George
Washington, brought only $500.
The only attested copy OF the ORR
ginal will of Washington himself,
to which is appended a schedule OF
the property comprehended in the
will, was sold to w. X. Benjamin
for $1,4O0. w. e. Benjamin also
secured General Washington's
manuscript prayer book, entitled
Daily Sacrifice" 1t brought
1890.
The highest price brought to-
day by any of Washington's me-
mentOs was for an engraving OF a
celebrated portrait by Callet OF
Louis XVI. Of France. The en-
craving is a fulI-length one OF
King Louis in his state robes, and
is enclosed in q gilt frame made
expressly for it. At the top are
the arms of France, and at The
bottom the arms of Washington,
and in the corners are the mono
grams of the King and Washing
ton. The picture was the gift OF
the unfortunate monarch to Gen.
eral Washington.
1t was expected the picture
would bring many thousand dol
lars, but it was sold at the small
price of 81, 800.
One of the swords of Washing
ton was sold to w. Il. Benjamin
for $1,l00. During the late civil
war this sword was hidden in q
pigeon-house. General Washing.
toms violin was sold for 1856, his
shoe buckles for $3.50 and his cane
| for $50. A mourning ring which
the General wore in honor OF hie
half-brother Lawrence went foi
$3.50 and his mantel mirror that
hung in the parlor at Mount Yer
non brought $500. A small marble
bust of Necker, Minister OF Financ'
to Louis XVI, that was presented
to Washington by Count D'Estainl
in 1890, was knocked down at $500
An original India ink drawing o
!, the destruction of the Bastile, pre-
sented to Washington by Lafayette
was sold for $3.50 General Wash
ington's account book, kept by Sec
5 rotary cambridge and others, fror
March 4, 1898, to March rs, 49,
was sold for $775.
70 Among the items entered in tn
book one under date of April 2.
;. 1898, is one for SO for eight circu
ID tickets. Another is for 50, whic
was paid to "a man who had yer
sagacious dog" that he exhibite
" to the family. Washington ais
10 bought twenty tickets in tho Fit
: hugh lottery, for which he pal
S088. Washington's memoranda
cash account, kept when he We
fifteen years old, sold for S475. A
oil portrait of Harry Clay, painte
by Samuel Finley Breeze Mors
and for which the United State
I. Government offered John K.
Lewis, it's owner, $4,000, brougl
s520.-[Exchange.