Cup

Made by D. C. Fulton
Coin silver (900 parts per 1000 pure silver)
c.1842 - 1861
Height: 3 7/8”
Gala Fund Purchase
88.56.4a

Three die-stamped incise marks on base: “D.C. FULTON/PURE COIN” and three pseudo-hallmarks: eagle in rectangle, “U” within an ellipse, and a shield. “Ashley” monogrammed in script on side. Set of seven beakers made for either Arkansas’s United States Senator (1844-1848) Chester Ashley (1791-1848) or his son William E. Ashley (1823-1868) both of Little Rock, Arkansas.