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Inscription from Mary M. Vaux
Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · December 25, 1877
This inscription records a gift presentation dated Christmas 1877, inscribed in cursive script on aged paper. Mary M. Vaux received this item from Auntie E. D. Graham. The handwritten notation exemplifies nineteenth-century gift-giving practices and personal documentation, capturing a moment of family exchange during the Gilded Age. Such inscriptions served as provenance markers and expressions of familial connection, predating modern bookplates and ownership stamps as methods of identifying treasured possessions.
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