"The Dunster Porringer"

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Description

Plain circular with flat trefoil handle pierced with trefoil, small circle and three crescents; the base engraved D over HE; with later applied oval patch engraved: "This belonged/to/Prest. Dunster/of/Harvard College Repaired 1854"

Dimensions

3.8 x 12.4 cm (1 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.) 168 g

Provenance

Possibly the Reverend Jose Glover and his wife Elizabeth née Harris, before 1638. Henry Dunster and either his first wife Elizabeth Glover (married 1641-43) or Dunster and his second wife, Elizabeth Atkinson (married 1644-56), by descent; to Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Dunster and Elizabeth Atkinson, bequest; to Henry Dunster (nephew of Elizabeth Thomas), 1729, to his son by descent; Henry Dunster, by descent. Charles H. Baker [1], Mohegan Lake, NY, gift; to Harvard University, 1931. [1] Charles H. Baker is the grandson of Samuel Dunster of Attleboro, a descendant of Henry Dunster