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Article: Paul Revere silver at the Worcester Art Museum.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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Ever since its founder and principal benefactor, Stephen Salisbury III (1835-1905), bequeathed four pieces of his family silver made by Paul Revere to the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, Revere's work has been an important Leature of the museum's early American collection. A series of gifts between 1937 and 1967 added thirty of the forty-five pieces that originally comprised Revere's largest single commission--the service made for Dr. William Paine, a Worcester physician, in 1773. Then, in 1999, the museum doubled its holdings of Revere silver through a generous donation from the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Unum-Provident Corporation. [1]
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