[DCRM-L] FW: Paul Revere engraving, "Buried with Him by baptism"

[Noble, Richard]

I'm darned if I know how I managed to send this to DCRM, but I'm glad you
were tickled by it.

Cheers - Richard

PS: Usual apologies to a list not intended to be a recipient.

RICHARD NOBLE : RARE BOOKS CATALOGER : JOHN HAY LIBRARY : BROWN UNIVERSITY
PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : 401-863-1187/FAX 863-3384 : RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:03 PM, dooleyj <dooleyj at oclc.org> wrote:

>  I love it that you love your work. :) -jd
>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> *From: *"Noble, Richard" <richard_noble at brown.edu>
> *Reply-To: *DCRM-L <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> *Date: *Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:56:57 -0400
> *To: *Golden Ball Museum <gbtmuseum at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *DCRM-L <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>, "Snyder, Holly" <Holly_Snyder at brown.edu>,
> "Hewes, Lauren" <lhewes at mwa.org>
> *Subject: *[DCRM-L] Paul Revere engraving, "Buried with Him by baptism"
>
> The Brown University Library has just brought to light, from its casual
> hiding place in a book long in our collections, a copy of Paul Revere's
> print "Buried with Him by baptism". It's quite rare, and I've spent a few
> hours on the Internet tracking down copies. It seems possible that you have
> one of them.
>
> The gist of what I've found is noted in our catalog record, in progress:
>
> http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b6122827
>
> I have found out, from the curator of prints at the American Antiquarian
> Society, that the second AAS copy noted by Clarence Brigham was actually on
> deposit from a certain Ralph Jones, and was returned to his estate in Mar.
> 1967. The print is referred to in a newspaper article about the GBT in the
> *Middlesex News*, the second of two articles reproduced at
>
>
> http://www.howetavern.com/wp-content/themes/Zeke10/images/GoldenBall_MN_undated.pdf
>
> This article must date from ca. 1979 (the GBT was 211 years old at the
> time of writing), and my guess is that the print, having been returned,
> found its way to the attic when the house was being renovated. It sounds as
> if it must have moved back downstairs, and I wonder if it is among your
> treasures currently. At this point it would be (counting our newly
> unearthed copy) one of five known copies, and a very nice thing to
> have--certainly that's our opinion of it.
>
> I have to say that the cloud of links among the websites for the old inns
> of the Boston region makes for a very interesting afternoon of divergent
> and convergent clicking.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard Noble
>
> RICHARD NOBLE : RARE BOOKS CATALOGER : JOHN HAY LIBRARY : BROWN UNIVERSITY
> PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : 401-863-1187/FAX 863-3384 : RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU
>
>
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