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.”

CIGAR LIGHTER
c. 1870
White metal, mythological form of "Foo" lion-dog used as a cigar lighter. Acquired by Willam Seward on his trip around the world.
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