Old Put · The General on Horseback · Heritage Holiday Ornament
Old Put · The General on Horseback · Heritage Holiday Ornament
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Old Put. A general on horseback, sword up, the horse plunging down a flight of stone steps and not slowing for any of them. Drawn in warm sepia, the way his men would have told it. It is the moment every story about him eventually comes back to.
Israel Putnam was a Connecticut farmer who, the story goes, left his plow standing in the field when word came from Lexington in April 1775, rode for Massachusetts, and was a general at Bunker Hill two months later. He was fifty-seven. Behind him already were the French and Indian War, a shipwreck off Cuba, and a night tied to a tree while his captors built a fire. His soldiers called him Old Put.
He was no polished officer and never claimed to be. He swore, he gambled, he lost as many fights as he won, and his men would have followed him anywhere. This is the man on the horse: a colonial general who always chose the steep way down.
Our own line drawing in warm sepia tones, set in crystal so horse and rider hold their shape under the lights. Three inches across; the horse is still moving.
For descendants, historical societies, riders, equestrians and horse people, and everyone who likes a hero a little rough around the edges. Profits go to hunger relief.
Faceted crystal, three inches across, with a white back so the line work reads from across the room once the tree is lit. Red ribbon. Boxed in gold or white, your call at checkout. Ships free anywhere in the U.S.
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