The Archive · 1926

MILES STANDISH'S

DRINKING CUP

Sold in New York for a Thousand Dollars New York, May 6.

The Iver drinking cup which Miles Standish ly said to have Uronght over in the Mayflower and used throughout his life sold for $1,000 at an auer the Anderson Galleries to-day. Tt reached the. auction room through Thomas Page of Stamford, Conn., a direct: descendant of Standish, and with it went documentary attestations, part. of which showed that the cup had been repaired so frequently that only the original bottom and handle were

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