He Is in Glory—The World in Tears

THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVERTISER. Providence, Wednesday, February 26, 1800. Volume II, No. 61. Tabloid [48.5 by 30.5 cm]. 4 pages. Removed from previous binding; near fine. A more lengthy and detailed advertisement for Washington funeral medals available from David Vinton, of No. 7, Market-Square, can be found on page 4, under the familiar heading above. “Perkins’ celebrated WASHINGTON MEDALS, gold, silver and composition: impressed with the likeness, the initials, the dates of the birth, death and principal events in the history of the immortal WASHINGTON. The peculiar excellency of this invention is to imprint on the minds of ALL, especially of YOUTH, the memory and important services of HIM who bought our freedom, and entailed it to posterity. These medals are worn in Boston, particularly by children of all classes.”