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This family register displayed a record of birth,
marriage, and death, serving as a record of the cycle
of life for the Jennings-Howell family of Southport.
The print would have been mass produced, very
often part of a family Bible, and the…

This musket, a copy of the British “Brown Bess,” was
said to have been carried in the Revolutionary War
by Joseph Banks of Fairfield. The barrel is iron and
marked “LONDON” but the touch marks indicate
that the gun was made in Belgium. The first…

This spoon, made in London of copper and zinc alloy,
uses a triple spoon motif as a touch mark or maker’s
mark. But since the register of makers’ marks was
destroyed, we have no way of associating this mark
with its maker. Spoons knopped…

Sometimes an artist’s creation is reinterpreted or
reused in a very different way. This skimmer is a
sieve-like spoon that is used for skimming cooking
liquids or lifting ripened cream from milk. Compare
this to the face of the Bulkley clock next…

These lithics are selected from a group of 93 blades
which were found together in a cache in Fairfield.
The stone is dolomite and shale, which came from
upstate New York. Each blade is strikingly similar.
The blades were found lying against one…

Logo for the exhibit "Make Your Mark"