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Your Price: $ 145.00
Item Number: 3833
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Manufacturer: handcrafted Antique
Illustrated here with a Civil War era quarter for size comparison is an attractive little slide top box, handmade from American walnut in the popular shape of a book. Its covers nicely cut with M. S. HILL 9-1864 on one side and N. SWEET 1865 GLENSFALLS on the other, the box is lined and divided into two compartments by a rich period textile suggesting intended use as a jewelry box. The history of the nicely carved memento, clearly made and gifted one to the other has unfortunately been lost in time. We found but one New York N. Sweet serving in the Civil War. He was eighteen year old Newton Sweet (local residence not given) who mustered in on August 27, 1862 as Pvt., Co. A, 125th New York Infantry. Taken as a prisoner of war at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia September 15, 1862 Pvt. Sweet was quickly paroled. On September 3, 1863 he was transferred into the Veteran Reserve Corps. His date and method of discharge not are not given. No M. S. Hill is listed as serving from New York strengthening a likelihood Hill was indeed lady friend recipient of Pvt. Sweet’s folk art gift. Reasonable speculation based on official records but speculation none the less. A nice piece of Civil War vintage folk art all the same and we have tried to reflect necessary additional research in our price. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. |
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