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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Pin made from wood of Charter Oak
Object Number
1948-03-0
Description
Small pin in shape of cross, wooden, made from wood of Charter Oak. Gold tipped ends. Pin attached to 3" x 5" notecard which is typed "This bit of true wood of the famous 'Charter Oak' was made into a cross and given to the late Mrs D.D.S. McLaughlin of Litchfield by an old lover, as I heard the story, and she gave it to me years ago - about 1893 I think. George Dudley Seymou, 223 Bradley Street, New Haven, Connecticut"
Comment
The Charter Oak was an unusually large white oak tree growing, from around the 12th or 13th century until 1856, on what the English colonists named Wyllys Hill, in Hartford. The name "Charter Oak" stems from the local legend in which a cavity within the tree was used in late 1687 as a hiding place for the document that embodied the colony's charter.
Category
Date Made
1856
Dimensions
1 1/2" long
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