The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 5, February 4, 2007, Article 20

WILLIAM APPLETON CAMEO QUESTION

Regarding the latest edition of Maine Antique Digest, Alan V. Weinberg
writes: "Check out the William Appleton cameo sold to the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston (page 23E) - is this the famed numismatist William Sumner
Appleton or his father?  The Appleton cameo is pictured and mentioned
as to sale at auction to the Museum of fine Arts but I think it might
be Appleton's dad as I think "our" Appleton lived decades later when
his fine numismatic collection went to Boston."

Maine Antique Digest editor Sam Pennington writes: "Appleton's
Cyclopaedia of American Biography (published 1888 by D. Appleton and
Co., New York) says about William: APPLETON, William, merchant, b. in
Brookfield, Mass., 16 Nov., 1786; d. in Longwood, near Boston,
20 Feb., 1862."

[The William Appleton of numismatic fame was born in 1840 and died
in 1903, according to an entry in Pete Smith's 'American Numismatic
Biographies'.  Alan is correct - the Appleton of the cameo is much
older. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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