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outwest Posts: 390 |
posted 04-06-2006 11:09 PM
  
I was researching Robert Kennedy because...well, that doesn't matter. But, while I was reading and looking at pictures I saw this and thought you might like to see it for fun. The caption says, "Mrs. Kennedy receives a pitcher for the White House, 05 December 1961" The shape is so similar to many water pitchers from 1800. Do you think this pitcher was an antique at that time? I wonder who made it? IP: Logged |
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vathek Posts: 966 |
posted 04-07-2006 07:05 AM
Jackie Kennedy was an elegant and rare first lady. She understood the value of the treasures the white house possesed and was an avid patron of the arts. My guess is this was an antique at the time and she knew exactly what significance it had as what certainly looks like American coin silver. We need more people as she was in public positions. IP: Logged |
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rian Posts: 169 |
posted 04-08-2006 10:30 AM
This picture made me think of the story in Turner's American Flatware of another First Lady, the Vandal, Mrs Grover Cleveland. She decided to have the White House silver, some of which had been chosen by Dolly Madison, melted down and made into the modern 1890s stuff. When the company she approached, Harris and Shafer, offered to do the entire order free or even pay the government, if they could be allowed to at least keep the Dolly Madison spoons, her response was to load everything up send it over to the US Mint and have it all melted down into ingots. The government paid to have a new set made from those ingots. The fact that I am so outraged, after all this time, makes me think I have lived here long enough to have become a Virginian. How many Virginians does it take to change a lightbulb? One to do the work and two or three more to comment on how much better the old light was.... IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 04-08-2006 01:28 PM
There must be a lot of Virginians. . . . certainly we have our share. IP: Logged |
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