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Stockings

Date1830-1840

OriginAmerica, Virginia, Williamsburg (worn in)

MediumSilk

DimensionsOL with toe extended 24 3/8 in.; Foot L 8 1/8 in.

Credit LineGift of the Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA

Object number2024-340,1&2

DescriptionPair of women's silk stockings with two red bands, one at the top and another 1 inch from the top. Darning present on both stockings to mend runs and holes.

1, "C 7" cross-stitched at the exterior top and "4 3" stitched at the interior top.

2, "A 10" cross-stitched at the exterior top.
Label TextThese stockings may have walked Duke of Gloucester Street in the 1830s! Donor history associates them with one of the wives of John Miller Maupin (1807-1850), either Matilda Cole (1814-1841) or Catherine Travis (ca. 1820-1879). Both women were born in Williamsburg and may have been cousins. Maupin purchased the Custis Tenement in 1837, four years after he married Cole. Cole likely died in the home in 1841, and Maupin married Travis a year later.
Inscribed1, "C 7" cross-stitched at the exterior top and "4 3" stitched at the interior top.

2, "A 10" cross-stitched at the exterior top.
ProvenancePrior to 1948, passed by descent through the Maupin family (Williamsburg, VA); 1948 given to the Valentine Museum (Richmond, VA); 2023-present given to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA)