A sauce boat by Abraham DuBois. ({Photograph} provided)
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Historic Huguenot Street will present a selected exhibition, “Silver by DuBois Makers from the William Bowen Astrop Assortment” via Sunday, Dec. 17.
The exhibition consists of holloware made by 5 silversmiths who’re descendants of New Paltz patentee Louis DuBois, based mostly on a press launch.
The exhibition is going on throughout the Fireplace Room on the DuBois Fort Buyer Center, 81 Huguenot St. Some objects displayed are from the late 18th century via the mid-Nineteenth century, by Abraham DuBois and Benjamin Franklin DuBois, every of Philadelphia; brothers Joseph and Teunis D. DuBois of New York and New Jersey; and Philo DuBois, who labored spherical Buffalo, the press launch acknowledged.
Among the many good silver objects embrace a cream jug, sauceboat, knee buckles, snuff area, and flatware, and was gifted to the HHS Eternal Assortment by the William Bowen Astrop Family in 2022. The exhibition moreover has Nineteenth-century paperwork from the Teunis D. DuBois Family Papers held throughout the HHS Archives, the press launch talked about. This consists of letters relating to the “untimely lack of lifetime of Teunis’s first partner Sarah Vanderveer in 1806, the Warfare of 1812, and an outbreak of dysentery in 1826, along with an account book of Rev. Benjamin DuBois, the daddy of Joseph and Teunis DuBois.”
The exhibition is free and open to most people. Current fall hours are Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with an hour break at 1 p.m. for staff. The center is closed on weekdays.
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