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Thomas McDonald
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 Posted: Mon 06 Sep, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject: Heritage Museum, Lexington |
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A couple of swords from the "Lexington Alarm'd" exhibit, at the Museum of Our National Heritage , Lexington, Massachusetts !
Mac
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Alexi Goranov
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| Posted: Tue 07 Sep, 2004 8:48 am Post subject: |
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Nice!!
Thanks, Mac. What else is in that museum?
Alexi
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Thomas McDonald
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| Posted: Tue 07 Sep, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Alexi Goranov wrote: | Nice!!
Thanks, Mac. What else is in that museum? Alexi |
Hi Alexi
If you click on the link (in my first post) it will give you an idea of the type of exhibits the Heritage museum features!
They do not have much in the way of swords ( basically what I showed you ;-) ...... but do have several nice muskets, pistols, etc, and some fine displays!
During the off season they bring those awesome 'Murdoch' (of Doune) Scot pistols back to the museum
(they display them at the Hancock-Clarke house during tourist season) These are the ones that were speculated to be Maj. Pitcairn's, lost during that fateful day in April of 1775.
I hope to get to handle these oneday, Mac
" ....The British came under heavy fire on the road back to Boston. They suffered severe casualties. At Fiske's Hill John's (Pitcairn) horse was again grazed by bullets, and threw him. He was forced to march the rest of the way, as the wounded animal had bolted into the American lines.
It is alleged that the horse took with it his brace of richly decorated metal scroll-butt pistols, made by John Murdoch of Doune. The pistols were presented as a trophy to the Rebel officer Israel Putnam. They are displayed in the Hancock-Clarke Museum in Lexington during the tourist season, and off-season in The Museum of Our National Heritage, also in Lexington. However, there is a question-mark over their provenance: the heraldic crest engraved on the escutcheon plates depicts three swords, with a snake twined around the middle one. This does not resemble the known crest of the Pitcairns of Forthar, a moon rising from a cloud. So whose the pistols really were is uncertain."
'Gott Bewahr Die Oprechte Schotten'
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