A Gold-Mounted Oak Cane / Walking Stick Made from a Wood Girder From Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA, by Jacob W. Colladay, Dated "1854"

The gold handle engraved with oak leaf swags above archways, one with patriotic shield, others inscribed, "Cane Made of the Original Timbers of Independence Hall" and "Presented to John H. Diehl/ President of Common Council/ by Jb. W. Colladay/ Dec. 5th 1854"; accompanied by documents related to John H. Diehl, including a flyer for The Independent Mutual Insurance Company of Philadelphia, of which Diehl served as president; a check issued by Girard National Bank and inscribed by Diehl, dated "August 1st, 1866"; a newspaper obituary clipping from 1883; a photocopy of a book page documenting John H. Diehl under the Diehl Family; a photocopy of Diehl's death certificate; an envelope written out to Millard F. Diehl of Delanco, NJ; a business card for Samuel G. Diehl; and three cabinet card photographs of family members, one identified verso, "Anna Breiderchart."

L: 34 1/2 in.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

John H. Diehl (1809-1883) was both a prominent businessman and politician in Philadelphia, serving as one of the first presidents of Common Council. Under Lincoln's administration, he was named Collector of Internal Revenue.

Thence by descent in the family to the present consignor.

Note:

Jacob W. Colladay, elected to the Carpenters Company of Philadelphia in 1836, was a noted carpenter and builder and was active up until 1868.

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Cain joined Freeman's in 2001 as the company's first American furniture and decorative arts specialist. She began her career in American Decorative Arts as assistant curator at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1984 she became curator of costume at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1986, she relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts and switched from museum work when she joined the American Furniture and Decorative Art Department at Skinner Inc., Bolton and Boston, Massachusetts. Before leaving New England in 1997, she had the great pleasure of directing the cataloguing project of the Folk Art Collection of Nine Fletcher and Bertram K. Little at Cogswell’s Grant, Essex, Massachusetts for the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. Ms. Cain joined the cast of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow in Season 19.
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A Gold-Mounted Oak Cane / Walking Stick Made from a Wood Girder From Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA, by Jacob W. Colladay, Dated "1854"

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

Thence by descent in the family to the present consignor.

Note:

Jacob W. Colladay, elected to the Carpenters Company of Philadelphia in 1836, was a noted carpenter and builder and was active up until 1868.

American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts

A Gold-Mounted Oak Cane / Walking Stick Made from a Wood Girder From Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA, by Jacob W. Colladay, Dated "1854"

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