Item 100155 - Fire relic teacup, Portland, ca. 1863
- Item 100155 - Fire relic teacup, Portland, ca. 1863
- Contributed by Maine Historical Society
- Item 100155
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Image Info This cup and a saucer survived the Great Portland Fire intact and were decorated with the note "passed through the fire, July 4th, 1866."
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Judge Nathan Webb (1825-1902) owned the cub and saucer. Webb, a native of Portland, became county attorney in 1866, and was later U.S. District Attorney for Maine, and then a federal judge.
