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Copper alloy watch fob swivel seal with classical figure molded in intaglio.

Copper Alloy | Object #: 1835906

Mix of Rococo and Neoclassical style. Glass inlay broken in 3 pieces. Appears to be gold foil underneath face. Missing other face- could have been another seal or metal backing.

Copper alloy watch fob swivel seal frame with acanthus leaves and cord design.

Copper Alloy | Object #: 1836049

Slightly different frame than watch fob seal 1835906. Missing its seal face(s).

1-piece pewter spoon with egg-shaped bowl and attached handle.

Pewter | Object #: 1839371

1-piece pewter spoon with puritan-shaped bowl and visible rat tail.

Pewter | Object #: 1839405

Pewter handle fragment with a fan-shaped end.

Pewter | Object #: 1839475

3 fragments, 1 of them shows the fan-shaped end. Conserved together and form/size and same context suggests they are a part of the same handle.

Circular copper alloy leather ornament with 2 tines.

Copper Alloy | Object #: 1839525

Slight chip missing from face where second tine was attached. Open circular hole in center of face.

Circular copper alloy leather ornament with 2 tines.

Copper Alloy | Object #: 1839629

Tines broken. Open circular hole in center of face. In profile, ornament face is trapezoidal.

Circular copper alloy leather ornament with 2 tines.

Copper Alloy | Object #: 1839641

1 tine broken. Circular open hole in center of face. In profile ornament face is trapezoidal.

Limestone marble.

Limestone | Object #: 1839759

The object pictured here is a simple toy marble. It is made of limestone and polished smooth. While it is always difficult to associate an archaeological item with a singular person, it is possible a toy such as this would have been used if not owned by one of the many enslaved children living ...

Limestone marble fragment.

Limestone | Object #: 1839762

Extremely degraded. Does not appear to belong to marble frag 1839784 because to put them together would create an egg-shaped marble.

3/4 of a limestone marble.

Limestone | Object #: 1839784

Does not appear to belong to marble fragment 1839762 because to put them together would create an egg-shaped marble. Breaks apart easily

Blonde shatter from gunflint.

Chert/Flint, Honey-Brown | Object #: 1839790

Blonde shatter is byproduct of making gunflint.

1725 silver spanish 2-real coin, cut into 1/8

Silver | Object #: 1840590

This wedge of silver is a Spanish 2 real coin that has been cut into a 1/8th portion. Just visible on the piece are the numbers “25,” and small fragment of a crown surmounting a shield bearing the royal arms, indicating the coin was minted in 1725 during the reign of Phillip V. Comprised of pur...

Quartered white metal coin.

Metal, white | Object #: 1840827

Worn white metal (silver?) coin that has been quartered. Crude and uneven- perhaps a cob coin. Later cob coins cruder- http://www.sedwickcoins.com/articles/colonialcoinage.htm

Daniel Parke Custis wine bottle seal.

Non-Lead | Object #: 1840926

This fragment is a wine bottle seal, bearing the initials of DP Custis. Wine bottles such as this were primarily imported from Britain and Europe in the eighteenth century, and were commonly used to consume cider, beer, wine or liquors in colonial households of all statuses. Seals such as these...

Plain weave bast-fiber textile fragment.

Fiber, bast | Object #: 1841151

Once adhered to silver spanish coin 1840590. Came off post-conservation. Reverse of coin date (25) and quatrefoil impressed into textile. Partial pseudomorph, part organic. Bast (vegetal) fiber. Likely linen. Could be hemp. Plain (tabby) weave. Threads appear to be Z-spun.

Polished raccoon baculum with incised line.

Bone | Object #: 1841966

Missing tip close to thinner end of baculum. Incised line toward thicker end, uneven, and does not totally circle shaft. Iron corrosion on one side.

Bone fan guard with incised linear decoration.

Bone | Object #: 1842496

Both ends broken. Piece was closer to the rivet and is thinning out toward the top.

Elephant ivory pistol-grip fork handle

Bone | Object #: 1845353

Only the end of the handle, the pistol grip. Can see the very start of the tang hole--appears cir circular in shape. Thickness is comparable to the pistol-grip handles of forks

2-piece elephant ivory pistol-grip fork handle

Bone | Object #: 1845372

Full length of handle; circular hole for tang. Length and thickness comparable to other examples of fork handles in the Mount Vernon collection