In due time…..when I shall have paid the debt of Nature, my remains will rest here in your midst with those of my kindred and neighbors. It is possible they may be unhonored, neglected, spurned! But, perhaps, years hence …..some wandering stranger, some lone exile may erect over them a humble stone, and thereon, this epitaph, “He was Faithful.”
Music Box Chair
Late 19th Century
Acquired by Wm. H. Seward II while traveling in Europe in 1888. Walnut carved and inlaid music box chair. Carved in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Naturalistic twig-carved openwork back centering a stag on inlaid navette-shaped medallion. Serpentine seat with circular medallion. Cabriole legs. When back is tipped back, a music box is revealed in the seat.