Empire style silk brocade vest.

Silver watch with blank crest on reverse. Back of mechanism, when open, says "Patent Lever. Ami Perret LOCLE." Winding tool is attached to watch by string.

Small leather-covered wooden box containing ten brass weights. Each weight is inscribed with letters and numbers. A slide covers a collection of ten (originally twelve) smaller silver weights, the largest of which is marked 128. Paper label on front of box labeled "German weights for coins".

Printing block with eight columns of Chinese script, nine rows. Handwritten notes on back (some illegible): "For [?] Dunglison/Specimen of Chinese block cutting From W.B. Driver MD Macao July 1840" and "Presented to Am Philos Soc by S. Dunglison" and "5 March 18--"

Press of wood construction, with worm and rack of brass. Faintly inked "American Philosophical Society. Given by Francis Dacosta, May 21, 1819."

Ship housed in glass and wooden display case. Model of the merchant ship "Alice," of Wareham.

Empire mahogany upholstered reclining chair of Roman curule form with rounded X-form profile of opposing scrolls which flair backward slightly along tall back. Arms roll downward into comma-shaped open scrolls which contrast with scroll of seat. X-shaped, curved legs are of square section and end in casters. Medallion is separate from chair, but rests on top. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

Spanish-style armchair. Rectangular back of leather which is elaborately embossed with heart and tulip devices above an embossed leather seat; all mounted with rosetted-headed tacks. The straight arms are raised on square stiles which pass through the seat and are conjoined by a pierced strecher of chain form. Below is a plain stretcher of square section which is flanked by deeply scalloped lateral stretchers. Possibly from Spanish colonial revival, 1860-1890. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

Federal Philadelphia Windsor armchair. Slender crest rail raised on seven slender bamboo-turned spindles which are flanked by conforming bold stiles, fitted with conforming arms and supports. They all terminate in a grooved and scooped saddle-shaped seat which is raised on raked bamboo-turned legs and stretchers. The underside of the seat is inscribed: "Mary's seat/ Sept. 4 1865."

Mahogany and glass bookcase, lacking original base. The upper section has a plain cornice molding above a set of four eight-panel glazed doors with Gothic arch top panels, enclosing wooden shelves above a shallow bracket foot of a later date.

Philadelphia-made marble top mahogany sideboard. The slightly overhanging marble top is above a protruding frieze, fitted with a handleless drawer in book-matched veneer of boldly figured crotch mahogany beneath a molded top edge continued along the sides of the case. Raised on freestanding pilasters in the form of Ionic columns, above a conforming veneered platform on massive paw-feet at the front, round legs behind. The columns stand before the recessed back which is hinged with a pair of mirrored doors. The doors were possibly added at a later date, converting what was a probably a pier table to a sideboard. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

Each chair has a curved and backward-scrolled crest rail inlaid with a plain reserve of highly figured mahogany veneer and raised above a slender slat of opposed S-scrolls, terminating in rosettes and leafage upon a reeded crossbar. The tapered rounded stiles continue along the upholstered slip-seat and slender rail and are raised on plain sabre legs. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

Wooden ship model with two masts and rigging. A lifeboat hangs off the stern. Housed in glass and wood display case.

Dark wooden cane with metal tip and staghorn or bone handle. Wood is knobby throughout length. Top of cane has shaped plaque inscribed "M. Burrough."

Smaller than life-sized terra cotta bust of a man wearing a wig and a jacket and ruffled-front shirt. Bust is painted black and mounted on a short wooden base. Tentatively identified as James Madison, serving as Giuseppe Franzoni's model for the Madison Indian peace medals. Previously identified as Benjamin Rush (1896), and Charles Thomas by William Rush (1961).

Truncated pyramid of mahogany, consisting of two identical interlocking halves. There is an oval aperture on the top, and holes at the bottom on all four sides. (Robert P. Multhauf, "Catalogue of Instruments and Models," 1961).

Simple wooden model of a press, hand operated through a toggle. Ratchet on side

Philadelphia Classical drop-leaf pedestal table. Rectangular overhanging top, hinged with boldly scalloped shallow drop-leaves which are raised on hinged swing-supports flanking a cockbeaded frieze drawer, with brass pull at each end above cockbeaded edge moldings and protruding corners suspended with stepped ring drops. These rest on an urn-form pedestal raised on molded sabre legs ending in brass paw-feet. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

American Late Federal table. Has overhanging rectangular top of green Connecticut marble above shaped apron with square corners. Raised on bold ring-turned vasiform legs conjoined by deep stretcher shelf and ending in peg-feet.

1 1/2" cube, inscribed with the letters a and b in various powers.