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Title: Museum Buys Silver Coffee Pot By Philip Syng, Who Lived Last Years On Plantation In Ardmore
Author: Uncle Ben
Source: Main Line Chronicle
Date: 6/30/1966
Folder/Item #: Syng, Philip, Jr.; 4
Notes:
Abstract: Celebrated silversmith, 70, moved to Ardmore; lived at St. Georges, formerly the Prince of Wales Inn, and after 1811 the home of the Anderson family; family history; pictures of his famous coffee pot recently purchased by the Philadelphia Museum of Art