The fragment will stay in the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia until Jan. 2025
The fragment will be displayed at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia until Jan. 2025.As a collector of artifacts, Richard "Dana" Moore makes a habit of scrolling through Goodwill's online thrift store, and one day in 2022, the history buff came across an item that piqued his interest.
Moore said he took a closer look at the torn note and determined it looked like it had aged over the years along with the fragment, which is 4 inches wide and over 5 inches long.Moore told CNN that he bid a little over $1,700 on the artifact and won. He initially didn't tell his wife, Susan Bowen, and hid it in their home.
While the museum is still trying to determine which gap the fragment might fill, its binding and hand-stitched linen point to it being the real thing. Also, the note that it came with is appropriate for the time period. The fragment, on loan from Moore, was put on display for public view in February of this year as part of the museum's exhibit Witness to Revolution: The Unlikely Travels of Washington's Tent. The fragment will stay in the museum until January 5, 2025, and then it will be returned to Moore.
The fragment was likely cut off the dining tent by a man named John Burns, who saw the tent on display in Norfolk, Virginia, at the exposition commemorating the founding of Jamestown. The tent itself was on loan from Mary Custis Lee, the great-granddaughter of Washington's wife, Martha. Currently, Moore is the only known private owner of a piece of Washington's tent. All of the others are in the Smithsonian and other museums.
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