Box 8

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Correspondents include:

Olden, Mrs. Walter Hart, Princeton, NJ, owner of extensive Olden family papers now at the Historical Society of Princeton.

Osborn, George A., Librarian, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Scope and Contents: Correspondents include: Penrose, Ellen W., Carlisle, PA, concerning the purchase and shipping of the monumental James Wilson desk and bookcase now at the Monmouth County Historical Association. Prentice, Bernon S., Sea Bright, NJ, a prominent sports figure, collector of sporting art, and a major supporter of MCHA. Pennsylvania...

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Correspondents include:

Philipse Castle Restoration, North Tarrytown, NY.

Pennsylvania State Library, Harrisburg, PA.

Princeton University Library, James Thayer Gerould, librarian, and Lawrence Heyl, associate librarian, Princeton, NJ, regarding the Jonathan Belcher broadside now at the Princeton University library.

Scope and Contents: Correspondents include: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY. Parsons, Mrs. William Barclay, Locust, NJ, regarding the Philip Freneau collection that was offered to the Monmouth County Historical Association, but ended up at Rutgers. Princeton University Library, Lawrence Heyl, association librarian, Princeton, NJ, invoices for...

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Edna Netter maintained a close friendship with Miss Parker from 1929 through 1944. She was known to her as Miss Peachey. There is discussion in 1929 about Netter’s purchase of the monumental James Wilson desk and bookcase, and its shipment to New Jersey. This piece is now at the Monmouth County Historical Association. The gossipy letters discuss the antiques trade in detail, plus many personalities that they knew in common.

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A continuation of folder 15.

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A continuation of folders 15 and 16.

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Over the course of twenty years, Netter disposed of many treasures inherited by Mrs. Paul. They also established a close friendship. Paul also made contacts for Netter with other people in the Mt. Holly area who wished to sell things. An important late 18th century Philadelphia four-piece silver tea set from Paul is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a gift of Mrs. J. Amory Haskell. There is some correspondence in this file on the set.

Scope and Contents: In 1940, Netter brokered the sale of a Charles Willson Peale self portrait that shows him holding a mastodon bone. It was purchased by the New-York Historical Society. This folder documents that transaction, handled at the time by Donald A. Shelley, then curator of paintings at the society. Netter also corresponded about the painting with Clarence S. Brigham of the American Antiquarian Society, William Sawitzsky for an evaluation of the work, the Toledo Art Museum,...

Scope and Contents: For almost 25 years, Netter maintained a cordial correspondence with Phoebe Phillips Prime, a leading specialist in early American silver. The two visited each other from time to time, attended seminars together, and made study trips to exhibits and museums. Prime was a major organizer of the landmark 1937 silver exhibit in Philadelphia sponsored by the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America. This led to the publication in 1938 of Three Centuries...