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an old vermont law resuscitated.pdf
Account of the role of Henry Sheldon's Museum collection in helping to verify the standard and reinstate a law concerning currency in the state of Vermont.

Sheldon Art Museum Advertisement Solicitation.pdf
Sheldon Art Museum Advertisement , Middlebury Register Vol. LIII, No. 51, Dec 21, 1888.

General Vermont News--an account of the full collection.pdf
entry under "General Vermont News" in Essex County Herald, Vol XIII, No 47, Friday, February 28, 1896

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A set of five teeth, accompanied by two notes written by Henry Sheldon (prior home of said teeth): one written in 1897 detailing the order and occasion in which each tooth was pulled. Another written in 1899 giving the reason for pulling the last…

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This little wooden cup was carved from a wood that was used to build the Alden House in Boston in 1660.

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Carving of John Brown's house on tree fungus

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A fork found embedded inside the hind quarter of a cow

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A broken piece of a looking glass that was brought from England by the first English settlers in the New World

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Small clock with interworkings made of ivory and metal crafted in Middlebury, Vermont around the year 1865.

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This cigar holder was made from the leg bone of a crippled chicken.
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