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  • Collection: Henry Sheldon Museum artifact collection

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wooden cup carved of wood taken from the Alden House of Duxbury Mass.

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This compass belonged to Ebenezer Markham, who came to the United States from Canada in 1783. It was later given to Henry Sheldon by Markham's grandson in 1900.

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This cigar holder was made from the leg bone of a crippled chicken.

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Small clock with interworkings made of ivory and metal crafted in Middlebury, Vermont around the year 1865.

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A broken piece of a looking glass that was brought from England by the first English settlers in the New World

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A fork found embedded inside the hind quarter of a cow

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Carving of John Brown's house on tree fungus

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This little wooden cup was carved from a wood that was used to build the Alden House in Boston in 1660.

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A set of five teeth, accompanied by two notes written by Henry Sheldon (prior home of said teeth): one written in 1897 detailing the order and occasion in which each tooth was pulled. Another written in 1899 giving the reason for pulling the last…
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