New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-26
0LDTIME RELICS.
Loan Erhibt by Colonial Danes
TO metropolitan Museum.

There are ghosts from Colonial times abroad IN
,he metropolitan Museum. this week. The Colohial
SILVER books miniatures and documents NIiici'
have been collected by the Colonial Danes % ~
Stale OF New York, aad whlch are 70 De sem -
che Jamestown ExTosiI.ss' were placed on view IN
,be now wing q: tic AIusearn yesterday. and may
f,e seen there until April g. There are boxes Jew
.sloa ana enamelod CIT CT which the candles OF
those days took their SNUFF; slippers worn % 4
Colonial belle at her wedding. queer school"ooAS
out Of which the children learned their lessons
state papers over which the makers Of the ne
public bent their powdered heads. Beginning VII"
che SILVER ;lap ctn used by the babies OF the Bees
man sain.ly in the middle Of the eighteeh1H en-
fury and ending with curioa; moGihi4s ~
allowing Al, urn beautifully outlined with seeu
7,earls and overhung with weeping WILLOWS "a lu
man hair the observer may get good laea az '.l.s
ovbibif,on OF the progressive stages OF = person
life in those days.
The eToun OF silver rieces is especially coInp'e'e
with the exception OF two or three Glses O!ous''
over from England and Holland. these pieces are
- American make having been selected with the
aim of showing what Colonial silversmi'hs eoIlu
do even though their country raw and young
Whether or rot fact is indicative OF tle t"S'N
of those days taukards certainly predominant oNt'
the other dishes ir the collection Mighty tahAaras
ahey are exquisitely chased but large enough 10
hold "A noble drink. one among the Wedding
presents OF Robert and Mary Livingston who were
married in l7a Buck Van Dyke all the famous
early silverslpiths arc represented here
There's a curious thing about some of these
tankards" said man who Vas arranging thei
You see part Of them have spodts. THAT'S oe-
cause they've been tampered vita slInon-p1ie
sankard like This" anG he hela UP "a MASSIVE
spouless one from the hsno OF Myer Myers Is ne
drinking vessel & was meant 60 be- Can you
Imagine the PATRONS Of old Albany quaihng from
the brim Of that? But as time went GA people
we're not aide to drink 50 much. evidently ana
many OF the tanlards were turned into pouring
no table Of miniatures and silaouettes is a
fascinating one. n What considered the L@o
e s o e6rs AND Martha Washington,
painted hy the artist Archibald Robertson SUI,
warm debates among the Colonial Descendants WIZ
sThnt does not look AZ all like Martha Wash
ington." observer insisted. Nhs. me u.s.
has given her a long. hooked nose, ana al her por5
traits agree that her nose was quite small and
The next conner did not agree. There is
picture OF Martha Washington by, stuart in . og:
FAMILY" she said. decisively, and know rom
that that this is very good likeness OF hef' nose
anu OIL QUAINT sILHoUETTEs.
One curious silhouette Of woman is Of smoke
on glass. tho picture being on the reverse side OF
the glass It has a wonderfully lifeke effect UNI
relieved black though il IS. Less soft and pleasing
but more sharply defined. the painted shllou,
cites profes Of Colonial daanes with their declaed
features men with their braided queuK HANGING
o9Mn Stllii0 o ,s,i 81 s,mnlJ. amt Mansfield
caused young woman who looked al IL TO say,
Il wonder if Aunt Mansfield liked her picture
when il dOne2
Anonc the things which show how the young
sdea taught how 10 shoot in Colonial days an
interesting relic is a horn alphabet II was brought
10 this country by If the first PATRONS % Al
learned their letters from IT, One queer old primer
shows. s the title page announces, how 10 read
spell chapter in the Bible by four and
twenty words only. There Is a geography, with a
man Of Virginia made in 1897. As n map il is cal
culated 10 make school children thankful that their
biographies were made IN the twentieth century
and not the seventeenth
In the collection also gre tiny scales. used for
Eaid 20 be the only of its kind in the country
One case contains old pieces Of American lace.
cloth spun and woven in Long Island in 1871, an
embroidered bedspread made in l16S by Mary Jones
Harris who certainly clever young woman
Among the historical documents are deeds Of land
sold by the Indians the white state papers
bearing the mansive seal Of George IT, and curl
ETY. OF Boston 10 attend meeting of the society.
This order was engraved by Hurd. the silveTsmith.
and bears exciting picture Of q house with
smoke issuing from its windows. upon which are
hands. and wearing. for uniforms long and flowing
worth seeing too are the old newspapers in
this loan collection There Is New England
Weekly Journal" twelve inches by six I'm size which,
announces thar IL contains All the most remark
able occurrences. foreign and domestic" There
prints and papers TOO, Of all the Colonial gov
errors. which have been preserved iE their de-
lectiOs there is nothing that viii appeal
women, perhaps, than dainty little horn fan.
Of pale amber color and painted it'll 4 wreath
Of tiny foWe3s Tha powdered ana patched beauty
Gan lies ifc-e quito la0lcs, tts painted blossoms
eNQulslte4s BrlSn' ana clear