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Great Elm on Boston Common Painted Tribute on Flitch from Tree 1876

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A framed elm flitch with printed image in paint and quote released by the Mayor of Boston when this great elm tree fell on the Boston Common in 1876. The Mayor of Boston, Samuel Cobb, released a statement on a unique medium: pieces of wood from the tree that had been transformed into a thin veneer. He used this platform to celebrate the tree's legacy to the community. Under a majestic image of the Great Elm, the mayor summarized the loss of an icon: "As the Great Elm on Boston Common, with an age in years outdating the settlement of the Town, was destined to fall, by wind and decay, during the time it was under my guardianship, as the Mayor of the City, I can do no less than give the attestation of my name to certify, that this is a perfectly correct view of it, just before it fell, and that the surface on which the photograph is presented is a veneer from the wood of the veritable and venerable Tree. March 31, 1876, Samuel C Cobb, Mayor of Boston."
This veneer tribute is framed under glass in a molded wooden frame. Dimensions: 14 ½” H x 9 ¾” W, actual; 15 ½” H x 10 ¾” W, framed. Ref: 8
Item id: 10031
Item type: Antique