Traveling chess set, ca. 1786
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American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia

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Exhibitions
"The Princess and the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin, and the Age of Enlightenment," American Philosophical Society, 2/17/06 - 12/31/06.
Provenance
Presented to APS by Frances Margaret Bradford. Bradford was a descendant of Mary (Polly) Stevenson Hewson. Franklin may have given Hewson this set when she visited him in France, shortly before she emigrated to the United States in 1786.
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