FORD’S THEATRE AND PETERSON HOUSE MEMORIAL FLOWER URN

FORD’S THEATRE AND PETERSON HOUSE MEMORIAL FLOWER URN

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Item Code: 2025-1890

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A palm-size, turned wood urn with top, measuring 4-1/2” tall overall, including the top. Nicely inscribed in period ink on one face of the urn is: “Wild Flowers / Gathered in front of Ford’s Theatre / and house where Lincoln Died / Washington, D.C.” Needless to say, people of the era were very attuned to the language of flowers- specific meanings and feelings attached to specific types of flowers. This a more universally understood memento specific to the Lincoln assassination, symbolizing not only life’s transience and a life cut short, but doing so with flowers cut between the site where Lincoln was shot and the spot where died, having been carried across the street from Ford’s Theatre to a room in the Peterson house. The condition is excellent. The contents are gone. This might have been a commercial piece, sold to visitors, but the handwritten inscription suggests an early and  more personal memento. It would make an interesting addition to a collection of Lincoln memorabilia and specifically Lincoln mourning material.  [sr][ph:L]

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