CURIOSITIES AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 65, 6 July 1876, Page 3

CURIOSITIES AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

*mong many "memorial*" that _«re r „,w turning up everyday in the tinted Sfttt'S in anticipation of the Centennial, ,V'"a memorial of Martha Washington," consisting of *'me old crockery. It seems that in l~* J tll ° P"** lo ** »»rticer» in the Continental Army presenter! to Martha Washington f * e htna dinner service, which, tiiey Ivml made especially for her in Pfuiok-. * )f ta ' 9 »«t—owing prohahty to the carelessness of Martha Washington's servants—there are now only two pieces in existence, a plate and a sarteer, which m . (fonnsiteil in the Patent Office at Wiisthuittton. ANW York firm has, acc„nlin""to the " NVw York; Triortne" made a, full »«*< >f tw> l ,iwces *' ftfter tfltv designs of the remaining pieces, not for sale hot for exhibition during the Centennial season, the ptates and saucers are facsimiles, and the other pieces are in the probable style of the original set, with the addition of photog.aphs of George and Martha Washington on sides of the fruit baskets. The original plate has painted around the margin a chain of fifteen large elliptical links "in green joined hy fifteen muUl links of gold. Within each link is the name of one of the States then in the Union, In the centre of the plate ts the monogram "M.W." in fclaek on a gold ground, surrounded hy a green border, from which radiates a star of gold rays; on the star beneath the monogram is a pink ribbon bearing the motto from Virgil, "Becvw et tutamen ftb tlto." Tlie edge of the ptate is of gold, and arottnd the chain of States is a coloured hand forming »serpent with his tail in his month, symbolising,, is itsuppoaed, eternity.