MAYFLOWER CERTIFICATE AND ASSORTED EPHEMERA

AUTHENTIC GENERAL SOCIETY OF
MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS
OFFICAL SIGNED AND CERTIFIED OCT 1900 CERTIFICATE
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FAMILY PHOTO’S
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5 VOLUMES OF GENEALOGY
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SIGNED HANDWRITTEN LETTER

 RARE AND HIGHLY DESIRABLE LOT OF TRUE AMERICAN HISTORY. THIS IS THE OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE PRESENTED TO MR. WALTER RICHARDS WHEELER, PROVEN DESCENDANT OF MAYFLOWER PASSENGER WILLIAM WHITE, BY THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS. IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE PHOTO, IT IS SIGNED AND SEALED, HAND WRITTEN WITH BEAUTIFUL FLOWING CALLIGRAPHY, INCLUDING A SMALL HAND DRAWN LIKENESS OF THE MAYFLOWER. IT IS BEAUTIFULLY FRAMED, AND PERFECTLY PRESERVED. THE ADMISSION DATE WAS FEB. 7, 1900, AND THE OFFICIAL SIGNING OF THE DOCUMENT AT PLYMOUTH MASS. IS GIVEN AS OCTOBER 11, 1900. IT IS HAND SIGNED BY 6 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, AND NOTATED: GENERAL NUMBER 1536 / STATE NUMBER 577.

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ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF HESTER PRYNNE

Engraved Portrait of Hester Prynne from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, standing in front of a doorway, from the Illustration by George Henry Boughton, an Anglo-American painter and illustrator.

“Description of painting from advertisement for the painting cut from a periodical (in the Hawthorne Graphics Collection, Peabody Essex Museum): Hester is revealed in his [Boughton's] imaginative recreation as a figure of dignity and strength who glows in the dark and brooding world of New England Puritanism around her….She stands patiently, her bag of needlework in hand, her eyes and composed features testifying to the inner strength which has sustained her through exposure on the public pillory and the continued obloquy of the townspeople….In the background a man and boy hurry through the cold night, their cloaks held to their mouths to protect them from both the frosty air and the evil vapors their imagination conceives as emanating from the scorned adulteress, yet with their eyes drawn furtively to her loveliness.”
Courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum
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