I put up a new build and ten minutes later I find some nice tidbit to add. Today, it is an interesting piece by two New York City silversmiths, Gerritt Onckelbach (the pan) and Jesse Kip (the lid).
which was loaned from a private collection for the 1956 exhibition Colonial Silversmiths, Masters & Apprentices at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The pan is engraved P over I C above a fleur-de-lys for Jean and Catherine (Carre) Pintard and L P over 1733 for their son, Lewis Pintard. And this brings me to a real regret I have with the structure of the web pages I build. The whole point of my little study has been an attempt to discover overlooked family connections and this is a perfect example of the site's failure. In this case, Lewis Pintard married Miss Susanna Stockman in 1759. Her sister Hannah married Elias and her brother Robert married Annis, both children of the great Philadelphia/Princeton silversmith Elias Bondinot, but how can I display this interesting merging of lines and makers? I have uncovered many similar gray interconnections, but how to set them off? Simply putting up all the pages in the tree (setting aside the time it takes to code and upload 250,000+ files) does not make obvious these crossing threads in the web, no matter how copious the notes I add. I have looked at just about every program around and none have an easy way of graphically displaying all the convoluted crossings and re-crossings I have traced out. The closest I have found is Genopro, but it requires hours of manual fiddling to produce useful charts and then can't produce a usable set of htm files or much of anything else past my own monitor display.
Oh well. . .
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