Sizer School Foundation – Sizer School Silent Auction
Auction Ends: Mar 1, 2019 11:59 PM EST

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Four Tickets to The Concord Museum

Item Number
132
Estimated Value
60 USD
Sold
25 USD to kn9cb9474
Number of Bids
5  -  Bid History

Item Description

The Concord Museum is a museum of local history located at 200 Lexington Road, Concord, Massachusetts, United States, and best known for its collection of artifacts from authors Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It is open daily except major holidays; an admission fee is charged.

Founded in 1886, the museum's collections started around 1850. Few collections of early Americana are as old or well documented. Its most notable items and collections include:

  • The "one if by land, and two if by sea" lantern, said to be hung in the Old North Church in 1775, and immortalized in the 1860 poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • American Revolution artifacts including powder horns, muskets, cannonballs, and fifes
  • A recreation of Ralph Waldo Emerson's study, including his books and furnishings, arranged as at his death in 1882
  • The world's largest collection of Thoreau possessions (over 250 objects), including the bed, desk, and chair from his cabin at Walden Pond, where Thoreau wrote his 1849 book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and gained the inspiration for his 1854 book Walden

The winner of this auction will receive four tickets good for admission to The Concord Museum.

Item Special Note

To learn more about The Concord Museum, please go here:

https://concordmuseum.org/

Tickets have no expiration date. This item will be shipped to the winning bidder in a first-class envelope. There will be no additional charge for shipping.