The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-03
MORE ANTIQUES
Historic Relics of Colonial
Days Owned by Jersey
City Women.
MAHOGANY, SILVER AND CHINA.
Washington and Lafayette Have
Seen These Revolutionary
Arms and Equipments.

Fa.fEA
The list OF Colonial and Revolutionary
relics grows apace. Before next Monday
afternoon, when the final meeting OF tne
Committee on Woman's Work for tins
Chicago Fair will be held the list Will
have been completed.
Among the names that have been added
to the list Is that of Mrs. E..V 4. Ginoro
of Bergen avenue. The relics which are
in her possession are among the mos'
valuable included In the catalogue, the
gems of the collection being a SWORD
carried In the Revolutionary War, the
blade engraved with the names OF Inc
thirteen rebellious colonies; also a SORT oil
helmet that protected the head Oh a
colonial fighter. 1t has the eagle SET In
front and a place for the cockade OF
plume, which is not present.
BRoCADEs AND SILVER.
Among the antiques owned by MRS. Y.
Melville Shipman is a procade gown worn
over a hundred years ago, made in the
fashions of those times, with a very 1uil,
round skirt, waist with surDlice ironC
and sleeves with a number of caps at tne
top. The shoulder seams are very lone'
coming several inches down the arm;
There are also a tablecloth more thar loo
years old, handwoven and bomespun; a
pair of pearl and silver sugar tongs. more
than $50 years old, and spoons or a cor.
responding age. Among the pieces OF
china is a "creamer'' of a boat-shaped de-
sign. the sides having panels In nfgn re-
lief, which formed part OF a wedolng OUT
fit q century n a half ago.
uTcTORJC FURNITURE.
Some OF the most interesting OF the en-
tire Iis5 are those In the possession OF tne
Varick family, whose connection. Win
the early days Of the New MEMBRANES
as we'll as the struggle for American IN
dependence is a matter OF history. MIs.
and it is by her courtesy tnat
information has been obtained regarding
the "antiuues," Among the helrlooms
in the possession of the family Is a
mahogony side board, the p .operty OF
Colonel Richard Varick, aid-de-camp TO
General Washington This was IN Inc
room in which Washington was enter
tanned at dinner. There Is also1a 0suseeau
ia which on various occasions Wasning-
tor has slept, and which has also Deen
occupied BY the Marquis de la Fayette:
Upon the side board just mentioned
stand " knife boxes of similar pattern,
sets of Rhine-wine glasses a very
large. beautifully enamelled owing cup
of Bohemian glass green in color with Il
portrait of Rudolph, king OF hungary
and Bohemia, surrounded by an
inscription within d wreath, the
whole standing some sixteen inches
high; all the property OF Colonel
Richard Varick. There is also the
mourning badge won by Colonel
Varick, at the funeral of General Wash
pgton the Grape still in q state OF pre-
seryation. These are but a few OF a long
list Of articles having a direct historic
value.
The Misses Babcock, of Philip street.
possess a valuable portrait of an lliustrl-
GUS ancestor who fought In the War Tor
independence. Family portraits OF this
era are by no means plentiful In Jersey
CITY. and the committee would be happy
to hear of any of whose existence they are
as yet uniformed.
An unusual circumstance IS the scarcity
Of old clocks and double mirrors, OF which
very few, comparatively speaking, have
been found. By double" mirrors is
meant those which are divided about a
third of the length down by a narrow
piece Of the frame, the upper
part either left plain or painted
In oils. These. with old clocks.
are usually the most plentiful OF
relics in New England villages. having
for their only rival the spinning wheel.
vet here in what was ouce the New
Netherlands, famous for its time pieces,
there are few to be found, and those. III
the greater number Of instances, brought
here from other parts OF the country or
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