. Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin. Number 43, July 1913 . ts, the oldest, Arabic 1140. To Philadelphians an old woodcut of Kempelens chess automaton shouldbe of special interest. This mechanical chess-player, invented in Yienna in1769, was exhibited throughout Europe; before it has stood and played 50 BULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM Frederick the Great, Dr. Benjamin Franklin and the Emperor Kempelen automaton was brought to America in 1826, making its homein Philadelphia, and was exhibited on Sixth street near Walnut. This historicautomaton was consumed by fire on July 5, 1854, w
. Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin. Number 43, July 1913 . ts, the oldest, Arabic 1140. To Philadelphians an old woodcut of Kempelens chess automaton shouldbe of special interest. This mechanical chess-player, invented in Yienna in1769, was exhibited throughout Europe; before it has stood and played 50 BULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM Frederick the Great, Dr. Benjamin Franklin and the Emperor Kempelen automaton was brought to America in 1826, making its homein Philadelphia, and was exhibited on Sixth street near Walnut. This historicautomaton was consumed by fire on July 5, 1854, when the Chinese Museumand the Philadelphia National Theatre at Ninth and Chestnut streets wereburned in the great fire of that year. J. F. M., Jr. OLD SILVER Mr. C. Hartman Kuhn has deposited on loan in the Museum a collectionof twenty-three examples of silver, the work of English and American silver-smiths of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The oldest of theEnglish pieces is a thirteen-inch paten with engraved arms in the centre, made. EARLY AMERICAN SILVER by John Martin Stacker and Edw. Peacock, which bears the date letter forI7°S- A companion piece, ten inches in diameter, was produced in 1727 inLondon by Thomas Mason. A tankard tray with armorial bearings is stampedwith the mark of Robert Abercromby and the date 1740, while a pair ofdecanter coasters was made by Robert Hennell in 1785. Among the Englishpieces of the nineteenth century are a large cake basket by Robert Garrard(1810), and a knife, fork and spoon, of elaborate workmanship, belonging tothe early Victorian period. BULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM 51 The group of American pieces, principally by Philadelphia silversmiths,contains some remarkably fine examples of late eighteenth century work,including an openwork brazier with wooden handle bearing the mark of PhilipSyng (1780); a small porringer by Richard Humphreys (1775); a pair oftankards with hinged lids decorated with engraved arms, by John
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