One (1) Daniel Morgan at the Cowpens medal, (Comitia Americana)
United States (France), 1781
Obverse Image: Morgan leads an infantry change on horseback against a retreating British cavalry; another cavalry charge is visible in the background.
Obverse Text: VICTORIA LIBERTATIS VINDEX. / FVGATIS CAPTIS AVT CAESIS / AD COWPENS HOSTIBVS / XVII. JAN. MDCCLXXXI / DUPRE. INV. ET. F.
Reverse Image: America, represented as a semi-nude Indian female places a crown of laurels on the head of Morgan who stands in uniform to her right; he bows slightly to receive his crown; behind them are two cannons, a shield, trumpet, fasces, and sundry standards to represent war.
Reverse Text: DANIELI MORGAN DUCI EXERCITUS / COMITIA AMERICANA / DUPRE F.
One (1) Daniel Morgan at the Cowpens medal, (Comitia Americana)
United States (France), 1781
Obverse Image: Morgan leads an infantry change on horseback against a retreating British cavalry; another cavalry charge is visible in the background.
Obverse Text: VICTORIA LIBERTATIS VINDEX. / FVGATIS CAPTIS AVT CAESIS / AD COWPENS HOSTIBVS / XVII. JAN. MDCCLXXXI / DUPRE. INV. ET. F.
Reverse Image: America, represented as a semi-nude Indian female places a crown of laurels on the head of Morgan who stands in uniform to her right; he bows slightly to receive his crown; behind them are two cannons, a shield, trumpet, fasces, and sundry standards to represent war.
Reverse Text: DANIELI MORGAN DUCI EXERCITUS / COMITIA AMERICANA / DUPRE F.
General Information: Strike: trial piece - note circular scribe lines, suggesting that the die has not yet been finished.
One (1) Daniel Morgan at the Cowpens medal, (Comitia Americana)
United States (France), 1781
Obverse Image: Morgan leads an infantry change on horseback against a retreating British cavalry; another cavalry charge is visible in the background.
Obverse Text: VICTORIA LIBERTATIS VINDEX. / FVGATIS CAPTIS AVT CAESIS / AD COWPENS HOSTIBVS / XVII. JAN. MDCCLXXXI / DUPRE. INV. ET. F.
Reverse Image: America, represented as a semi-nude Indian female places a crown of laurels on the head of Morgan who stands in uniform to her right; he bows slightly to receive his crown; behind them are two cannons, a shield, trumpet, fasces, and sundry standards to represent war.
Reverse Text: DANIELI MORGAN DUCI EXERCITUS / COMITIA AMERICANA. / DUPRE F.
One (1) Daniel Morgan at the Cowpens medal, (Comitia Americana)
United States (France), 1781
Obverse Image: Morgan leads an infantry change on horseback against a retreating British cavalry; another cavalry charge is visible in the background.
Obverse Text: VICTORIA LIBERTATIS VINDEX / FVGATIS CAPTIS AVT CAESIS / AD COWPENS HOSTIBVS / XVII. JAN. MDCCLXXXI / DUPRE. INV. ET. F.
Reverse Image: America, represented as a semi-nude Indian female, places a crown of laurels on the head of Morgan who stands in uniform to her right; he bows slightly to receive his crown; behind them are two cannons, a shield, trumpet, fasces, and sundry standards to represent war.
Reverse Text: DANIELI MORGAN DUCI EXERCITUS / COMITIA AMERICANA / DUPRE F.
General Information: Struck from the 1839 Barré dies, most probably in France as a prototype to show to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
One (1) Daniel Morgan at the Cowpens medal, (Comitia Americana)
United States (France), 1781
Obverse Image: Morgan leads an infantry change on horseback against a retreating British cavalry; another cavalry charge is visible in the background.
Obverse Text: VICTORIA LIBERTATIS VINDEX. / FVGATIS CAPTIS AVT CAESIS / AD COWPENS HOSTIBVS / XVII. JAN. MDCCLXXXI / DUPRE. INV. ET. F.
Reverse Image: America, represented as a semi-nude Indian female places a crown of laurels on the head of Morgan who stands in uniform to her right; he bows slightly to receive his crown; behind them are two cannons, a shield, trumpet, fasces, and sundry standards to represent war.
Reverse Text: DANIELI MORGAN DUCI EXERCITUS / COMITIA AMERICANA / DUPRE F.
Betsey’s sampler includes three distinguishing features of Rhode Island samplers; trumpeting angels with embroidered faces, queen stitch flowers, and a three-story house. Below the house, flanking flowers and birds is the verse:
“While hof[s]tile foes our coaf[s]ts Invade in all the pomp of war arrayd Ameri cans be not dismayd nor fear the f[s]word or GUn
While Innocence is all our pride and vir tue is our only Guide Women would f[s]corn to be defyd if led by WASHINGTON”
This verse on Betsy’s sampler offers a rare opportunity to discover the political thinking of a young girl during the Revolutionary War. She is showing a brave female defiance of Britain and an unwavering faith in George Washington, the commander of the Continental Army. Betsy undoubtedly was influenced by her father who was a privateer during the Revolutionary War. At the bottom of the sampler, flanked by queen stitch flowers, is a cartouche with the inscription:
“Betf[s]y Bucklin Her Work Septe mber 1781”
It is not known who the author of the inscriptions is. The sampler is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 25, weft 23/in. The stitches used are cross, crosslet, queen, rice, straight, fly, stem, tent, and gobelin.
Betsy [Elizabeth] Bucklin was born on September 20, 1768, in Providence, Rhode Island to Capt. Daniel and Eliza Carpenter Bucklin. On November 11, 1792, Betsy married Samuel Eddy. They had three children - Martha, Jonathan, and Elizabeth. She died of consumption on October 27, 1799, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Raised circular urn-shape cream pitcher with high-loop, tapered strap handle on a flared or trumpet-shape pedestal atop a flat square base with applied sides. Front of body is engraved with a pointed shield from which spring wrigglework scrolls holding pendant swags of drapery and bright-cut leafy garlands; two crossed branches below. Applied beading at curved rim with wide pouring lip. Front side of base is struck "I•V" in raised roman letters in a wide shield, flanked by pseudo hallmarks of an eagle-in-tree motif and the letter "P", both in scalloped-top squares. Pedestal underside is scratched "oz / 7 10". No centerpunch.
Large, inverted trumpet shape, lidded and spouted flagon with molded rim and midband on three cast cherub-head feet. Double-domed lid with heart-shaped cover over the inset, V-shaped, curvilinear spout. Hollow S-scroll handle with scrollback thumb piece, ridged and tongued thumbrest, and lower bud terminal with oval attachment. Bottom underside struck once with a large touchmark of Johann Christophe Heyne.
Maker is Johann Cristoph Heyne (1715-1781), a Saxon-born and -trained pewterer who was also a Moravian minister and teacher. He worked briefly in Germany (now part of Poland), Stockholm and London before immigrating to America in 1742 as part of the first group of Moravians to settle in Pennsylvania. He lived in Bethlehem and Tulpehocken, traveled to Dublin, Ireland as a missionary and finally made his home in Lancaster around 1752. Almost all of the roughly 100 known pieces of Heyne pewter are for ecclesiastical use.
One (1) Daniel Morgan at the Cowpens medal, (Comitia Americana)
United States (France), 1781
Obverse Image: Morgan leads an infantry change on horseback against a retreating British cavalry; another cavalry charge is visible in the background.
Obverse Text: VICTORIA LIBERTATIS VINDEX. / FVGATIS CAPTIS AVT CAESIS / AD COWPENS HOSTIBVS / XVII. JAN. MDCCLXXXI / DUPRE. INV. ET. F.
Reverse Image: America, represented as a semi-nude Indian female places a crown of laurels on the head of Morgan who stands in uniform to her right; he bows slightly to receive his crown; behind them are two cannons, a shield, trumpet, fasces, and sundry standards to represent war.
Reverse Text: DANIELI MORGAN DUCI EXERCITUS / COMITIA AMERICANA / DUPRE F.