Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield 

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Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield 

 

This type of Gettysburg desk set / relic display originated with Edward Woodward, a British born gunsmith living in Baltimore when the war broke out, who reportedly refused Confederate offers to supervise a gun factory in favor of aiding wounded US soldiers as a member of a Union Relief Society and later moved to Gettysburg after the battle to aid the wounded as a member of the US Christian Commission. He remained in town and is known to have been selling similar desk sets as early as September 1866 and by 1870 was advertising his gunsmithing and his relic business from a shop on Carlisle Street near the train depot. After Woodward’s death in 1894 these popular desk sets continued to be made by John Good and Joel Danner, though in simpler form than Woodward’s. This set is a good example of an early battlefield souvenir that might be brought home even by a visiting veteran of the battle. See O’Donnell, Hazard and Boardman, Gettysburg Battlefield Relics and Souvenirs for the story of these and similar creations that often sought to create something combining the artistic, the historic, and the useful. 

 

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Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield: A wooden base holds an inkwell, old bullets, two coins, a rusty iron ball, and small metal items neatly arranged on top.
Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield features a wooden base holding a glass inkwell with a wooden stopper, surrounded by lead bullets, a metal ball, and two round metal tokens.
Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield features a wooden base topped with metal and glass objects, including cylindrical and rounded pieces.
Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield features a wooden base displaying a rusty metal cylinder, glass square, small wooden block, several lead pellets, and a rusted iron sphere on a white background.
Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield features a wooden base holding an inkwell with a matching lid, surrounded by metal buttons, lead bullets, and an iron ball, all displayed on a white background.
A close-up of assorted old metal objects and bullets from "Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield," including a rusted ball and a wooden block, arranged on wood and photographed from above.
The "Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield" display features old bullets, buttons, a glass inkwell with a wooden lid, and other small historical artifacts on a white background.
Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield displays two historic bullets and a weathered metal button with a faint emblem, shown on a wooden surface beside a glass object.
This display, "Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield," showcases metal relics—bullets, a rusted ball, and buttons—arranged on a wooden base with a glass inkwell and small wooden block.
Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield features a wooden base holding a glass inkwell, metal buttons, lead bullets, a large metal sphere, and assorted small metal and stone objects. A separate wooden block sits beside it.
Containing Relics from the Gettysburg Battlefield: old metal and lead artifacts, such as bullets, a rusty ball, buttons, and a glass inkwell, are arranged on a wooden base.

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