Description:
Silver cup (unmarked) with a flat bottom, flaring sides, and attached cast S-scroll handle, and decorated with repousse garpes and leaves around the lower third of cup. The cup is engraved "G.D. Williams" opposite the handle for Grace Deane Williams (1871-1962), the daughter of Gorham Deane Williams (1842-1907) and Ella Clarinda Taylor (1846-1917) of Greenfield, Massachusetts, to whom the cup had been given. Grace Deane Williams and her sister, Nellie Taylor Williams (1873-1966) never married and lived in Greenfield on income from the investments of proceeds from the sale of a city block in downtown Greenfield owned by their father, a successful lawyer. The donor also gave a copy of "Seeing the Elephant" by Rinaldo Rinaldini Taylor (1823-1873), the maternal grandfather of the Williams sisters, to the HD Library.
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