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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 |
posted 02-27-2009 07:43 AM
  
Having fun with my new phone camera! This table spoon (which I used to eat my frosted shredded wheat this morning) is a fragment of a service that Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant ordered from Bailey & Co. for her victorious (and thus prosperous) husband. My mother only got two of these spoons, and my brother and I each got one. A fine symbol of a self-made man and his devoted ever-ambitious consumer wife. IP: Logged |
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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 |
posted 02-27-2009 05:48 PM
Here is the handle end of a large soup ladle I bought on my own years ago--with a lady on it. This also has the same marks, but instead of Bailey & Co. it says TIFFANY & CO. Duuuuh. IP: Logged |
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jersey Posts: 1203 |
posted 02-27-2009 07:10 PM
Thou art a Very lucky young man! Jersey [This message has been edited by jersey (edited 02-27-2009).] IP: Logged |
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Cheryl and Richard Posts: 154 |
posted 03-01-2009 05:55 PM
Ulysses, that is truly a treasure! IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 03-03-2009 11:19 PM
Your spoon is a great treasure from a great couple. U.S. Grant’s memoirs are considered by many to be the best autobiography written by a U.S. President and were a great financial success. From what I have read, the memoirs were written while he was in great pain, but because of his love for his wife and his desire to provide for her he completed them. U.S. Grant has been on the rise in the Presidential Leadership Survey moving from 33 to 23 in the last ten years. Of particular note is that in the category “Pursued Equal Justice for All” he rose from number 18 to number 9. LeeAnna Keith the author of “The Colfax Massacre” noted that U.S. Grant referred to the incident in Colfax, Louisiana as a massacre and not as a riot. This may be indicative of his attitude towards equal justice. IP: Logged |
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