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Glass flip

Description: Eighteenth century Stiegel type paneled glass flip; with copper wheel engraving in vesica and dot design; rough pontil mark; 18th c.
Date: 1700~/1799~

"Bride's bottle"

Description: Clear blown glass frug or cordial bottle with enamel decoration; Steigel type, 18th to early 19th century, pewter collar, slightly lavender tint to glass
Date: 1800~

Printing type

Description: Several hundred pieces of 19th century lead printing type, including spacers, from Brenham Banner Press office
Date: 1800~/1899~

Embroidered sampler

Description: Very delicate sampler stitched on fine linen with embroidered verse, trees, birds, building, floral designs, geometric designs, and "Watnall School"; stretched on wooden frame and nailed with rusty handmade tacks
Date: 1804
Creator: Allcock, Mary

Metal button

Description: Metal military button with eagle and shield design similar to U.S. Infantry officers, 1815-1821; eyehook on back
Date: 1815~/1821~

Embroidered sampler

Description: Plain weave sampler with silk embroidery, floral border, floral motifs, and poem. Text: "In Sharon's lovely Rose, Immortal beauties/ shine; Its sweet refreshing fragrance shows;/ Its origin divine./ Pleasure is a Rose, near which there ever grows/ the thorn of evil; It is wisdom's work so carefully/ to cull the Rose, as to avoid the thorn, and let its/ rich perfume exhale to heaven in grateful adoration/ of Him who gave the Rose to blow./ Mary Louise Brown, November 2nd 1829."
Date: November 2, 1829
Creator: Brown, Mary Louisa

Pap boat

Description: Porcelain pap boat with blue willow transferprinted design
Date: 1830~/1860~

Spillholders

Description: Pair of clear pressed glass spillholders with ground off pontil mark; design has strawberry diamonds and a large diamond with punty; some mold roughness; may be a Sandwich pattern
Date: 1840~/1860~

Percussion shotgun

Description: A composite gun made from various parts: blacksmith- made trigger guard; copper ramrod holders; wooden ramrod. Stamped on stock at butt: “LEVYON MADE MC LAWS PLANTA. 1841”; lockplate: “GOLCHER”; barrel: “_____PHILAD___”; possibly "slave made”"
Date: 1841

Campaign ribbon

Description: James K. Polk/George M. Dallas campaign ribbon; political campaign in which annexation of Texas was an issue
Date: 1844~

Penny

Description: Copper penny
Date: 1845

Bonnet

Description: White lace cap made by Mrs. Anson Jones for her son, Cromwell Anson Jones, b. 1849, Barrington
Date: 1849

Dress

Description: Embroidered baby dress with some open work made by Mrs. Anson Jones for her son, Cromwell Anson Jones, b.1849, Barrington
Date: 1849

Crock

Description: Stoneware crock with lid from Elmendorf potteries in Bexar County, TX after 1875
Date: 1875

Protractor

Description: Three-arm brass protractor (a) with extensions for each arm, and mahogany case (b) with brass fittings; marked “English ca. 1880” on tag, and “TRADE MARK LONDON”
Date: 1880~

[1.00 Trade Token]

Description: One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." On one side, this coin says, "In Trade Only, 1.00" with a logo and a patent date, "Pat. Apr. 7th, 1914; on the other it has the text: "C. W. Ehlinger, 1.00, Not Transferable."
Date: 1914~

[1.00 Trade Token]

Description: One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." On one side, this coin says, "In Trade Only, 1.00" with a logo and a patent date, "Pat. Apr. 7th, 1914; on the other it has the text: "C. W. Ehlinger, 1.00, Not Transferable."
Date: 1914~

[5.00 Trade Token]

Description: One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." On one side, this coin says, "In Trade Only, 5.00" with a logo and a patent date, "Pat. Apr. 7, 1914; on the other it has the text: "M. L. Weyand & Bro., 5.00, Carmine, Tex."
Date: 1914~

[25-Cent Trade Token]

Description: One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." On one side, this coin says, "In Trade Only, 25" with a logo and a patent date, "Pat. Apr. 7th, 1914; on the other it has the text: "C. W. Ehlinger, 25."
Date: 1914~

[C. W. Ehlinger Token]

Description: One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." On one side, this coin says, "In Trade Only, 50" with a logo and a patent date, "Pat. Apr. 7th, 1914; on the other it has the text: "C. W. Ehlinger, 50."
Date: 1914~

[C. W. Ehlinger Token]

Description: One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." On one side, this coin says, "In Trade Only, 10" with a logo and a patent date, "Pat. Apr. 7th, 1914; on the other it has the text: "C. W. Ehlinger, 10."
Date: 1914~
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