A Silver-Mounted Oak Walking Stick Made Of The Original Timbers From Independence Hall, Presented To Rev. Thomas H. Stockton (1808-1868)

Dated, "1855"

the silver-mounted handle engraved, "Rev. Thos. H. Stockton/ presented by his Friend/ W.R.S./ A.D. 1855," and "Made of the/ Original timbers/ of/ Independence Hall," accompanied by an embossed leather-bound copy of Pastor Alexander Clark, Memory's Tribute to the Life, Character and Work of the Rev. Thomas H. Stockton. Spoken in the First Methodist Church, Pittsburgh, Sabbath, October 25, 1868 (New York: Samuel R. Wells and Springfield, Ohio: A.H. Bassett, Methodist Book Concern, 1869), the frontispiece inscribed in ink, "To My Dear Friend & Brother/ Thos. H. Stockton/ of Phila-/ From Alex. Clark/ Feb. 27, 1869."

Length 33 1/2 inches (walking stick).

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Reverend Thomas H. Stockton was pastor of the First Methodist Church in Philadelphia (1838-1847) and served as the Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives during four separate years throughout his life (1833, 1835, 1859, and 1861). He is buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia.

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Cain joined Freeman's in 2001 as the company's first American furniture and decorative arts specialist. She began her career in American Decorative Arts as assistant curator at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1984 she became curator of costume at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1986, she relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts and switched from museum work when she joined the American Furniture and Decorative Art Department at Skinner Inc., Bolton and Boston, Massachusetts. Before leaving New England in 1997, she had the great pleasure of directing the cataloguing project of the Folk Art Collection of Nine Fletcher and Bertram K. Little at Cogswell’s Grant, Essex, Massachusetts for the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. Ms. Cain joined the cast of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow in Season 19.
Growing up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she was greatly influenced by the rich collections of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts held by Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. She notes her good fortune of working in our two great “attic states:” Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Each Commonwealth has tremendous inventory of historic material, great institutions, and citizens who treasure their inherited and collected items. Cain appears on the television Antiques Roadshow as an appraiser of decorative and folk arts.

American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts

A Silver-Mounted Oak Walking Stick Made Of The Original Timbers From Independence Hall, Presented To Rev. Thomas H. Stockton (1808-1868)

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