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CAPTION: portrait of Anthony Walton White private collection, lot 132
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PROPERTY OF A DESCENDANT OF THE ORIGINAL OWNER
A RARE SET OF TWELVE SILVER CAMP CUPS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST
MARK OF RICHARD HUMPHREYS, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1780
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A RARE SET OF TWELVE SILVER CAMP CUPS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST
MARK OF RICHARD HUMPHREYS, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1780
Each flaring cylindrical in sizes, engraved with monogram AWW, each marked under base
The smallest 1 5/8 in. high, the largest 1¾ in. high; 15 oz. (12)
MARK OF RICHARD HUMPHREYS, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1780
Each flaring cylindrical in sizes, engraved with monogram AWW, each marked under base
The smallest 1 5/8 in. high, the largest 1¾ in. high; 15 oz. (12)
來源
General Anthony Walton White (1750-1803), Revolutionary patriot and aide-de-camp to George Washington
Eliza Mary White (1792-1861)
Anthony Walton White Evans (1817-1886)
Anna Eliza Isabella Evans (1859-1919)
Walton White Evans von Hemert (b. 1894); thence by descent to the present owner
Anthony Walton White joined the Revolutionary forces as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 3rd New Jersey Regiment in 1776. He became a Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the 1st Continental Dragoons in 1779. He was taken prisoner at Lanneaus's Ferry in May 1780, and was exchanged in October of that year. He was made a Brigadier-General of the United States Army on July 19, 1798.
Early in the War, White served as aide-de-camp to George Washington, and among his correspondence are letters to Washington and fellow Revolutionary hero Nathaniel Greene. A letter from Washington to White of February 10, 1779 survives. According to family tradition, Washington drank from one of these cups, and it was thus engraved.
George Washington himself owned a pair of camp cups identical to the present examples, also made by Richard Humphreys. Engraved with Washington's crest, they are now in the collection of Mount Vernon (illustrated in Kathryn C. Buhler, Mount Vernon Silver, 1957, fig. 14, p. 38). The purchase of the two matching camp cups was recorded in Washington's accounts on June 25, 1780:
Bot of Richard Humphreys Half a Doz.n Large Camp Cups 29oz.-6dwt. 2 Small ditto ditto 2oz.-6dwt.
Washington also owned a set of twelve small camp cups by Edmund Milne of similar weight, described in Milne's bill for "His Excel.cy Gen. Washington" dated August 20, 1777, as "To Making 12 Silver Camp Cups wt 11oz." (All citations as quoted in Kathryn Buhler, op. cit., pp. 34-36)
Eliza Mary White (1792-1861)
Anthony Walton White Evans (1817-1886)
Anna Eliza Isabella Evans (1859-1919)
Walton White Evans von Hemert (b. 1894); thence by descent to the present owner
Anthony Walton White joined the Revolutionary forces as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 3rd New Jersey Regiment in 1776. He became a Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the 1st Continental Dragoons in 1779. He was taken prisoner at Lanneaus's Ferry in May 1780, and was exchanged in October of that year. He was made a Brigadier-General of the United States Army on July 19, 1798.
Early in the War, White served as aide-de-camp to George Washington, and among his correspondence are letters to Washington and fellow Revolutionary hero Nathaniel Greene. A letter from Washington to White of February 10, 1779 survives. According to family tradition, Washington drank from one of these cups, and it was thus engraved.
George Washington himself owned a pair of camp cups identical to the present examples, also made by Richard Humphreys. Engraved with Washington's crest, they are now in the collection of Mount Vernon (illustrated in Kathryn C. Buhler, Mount Vernon Silver, 1957, fig. 14, p. 38). The purchase of the two matching camp cups was recorded in Washington's accounts on June 25, 1780:
Bot of Richard Humphreys Half a Doz.n Large Camp Cups 29oz.-6dwt. 2 Small ditto ditto 2oz.-6dwt.
Washington also owned a set of twelve small camp cups by Edmund Milne of similar weight, described in Milne's bill for "His Excel.cy Gen. Washington" dated August 20, 1777, as "To Making 12 Silver Camp Cups wt 11oz." (All citations as quoted in Kathryn Buhler, op. cit., pp. 34-36)