Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 1774
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 9v
Notes:
Du Simitière may have had a bawbee, a copper coin minted in Scotland 1677-1679 during the reign of Charles II (1660-1685) that was equivalent to sixpence and depicted a crowned thistle on the reverse.
The donor, Robert Aitken (1734-1802), was a Philadelphia engraver, printer, and bookseller. His short-lived monthly, The Pennsylvania Magazine, for which Du Simitière provided a title page vignette, a map, and other drawings that were engraved, employed Thomas Paine as an editor. Aitken was, with Philadelphia carver and gilder James Reynolds, one of the appraisers of Du Simitière's estate.
