CHERRY WOOD BRANCH FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON'S ALLEGED CHERRY TREE. Shadow-box mounted wood branch displayed with affidavit dated January 16, 1954 from Lucy Tayloe Linton, a 15-year resident of Ferry Farm, George Washington's boyhood home in Fredericksburg, VA, attesting that this wood fragment "was left from the original Cherry Tree chopped down by our First President as a boy." Together with shadow-box framed edition of "The Life of George Washington, with Curious Anecdotes Laudable to Himself and Exemplary to his Countrymen" by Mason Locke Weems, open to Washington's legendary "quote": "I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet."
- Branch: app. 22 in. long; shadow-box frame: 37 in. x 11 1/2 in. Estimate $300-500
PROVENANCE: Museum of American Presidents, Strasburg, VA
