Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
October 1782
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. ,67r
Additional Source Text:
"Having on one Side St. George and the Dragon and a label underneath with the words [cyrilic text] and on the reverse the Cypher of the Emperor Peter III with the date 1758."
Notes:
An example dated 1757 is pictured here.
The donor, Lewis Weiss (1717-1796), a native of Germany, was a prominent Philadelphia Moravian who was an Arch Street neighbor of Du Simitière. See "Lewis Weiss, of Philadelphia, Conveyancer, Lawyer, and Judge," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 15, no. 3 (1891):361-365
