Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Silver Sugar Tongs Reference the "Meck Dec."

Story.

The "Meck Dec" is the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, which purportedly was published in 1775, a year before the US Declaration of Independence. I say purportedly because the document has never been found, and tales of its existence seem apocryphal at best.

Anyway, the Rosenberg Library of Galveston, Texas, has a pair of sugar tongs that reference the Meck Dec:

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