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Redding Connecticut Vintage Retro Ceramic Mug - Old Put in Bronze

Redding Connecticut Vintage Retro Ceramic Mug - Old Put in Bronze

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Old Put on a mug: General Israel Putnam on horseback, sword raised, for the Redding morning that needs a little nerve. The figure is an original, drawn in old bronze and printed on a white ceramic mug in 11 oz and 15 oz.

It is the desk and kitchen piece of the Redding set, and the easy second gift beside the ornament of the same design. Dishwasher and microwave safe, so it goes into daily use.

In the winter of 1778 to 1779 Israel Putnam commanded from Redding: three camps, the Danbury stores behind him, the Sound below, and a division unpaid and close to walking home. On the morning of December 30 he talked the Connecticut brigades back to their huts with a speech and one confined ringleader.

From these camps he pushed patrols down to the coast, and in late February 1779 a British column caught him at Greenwich with a handful of men. The ride that followed is the one everyone tells; what people forget is that he rode home to Redding. The park at his winter camp keeps a bronze of that moment by Anna Hyatt Huntington. This figure is not that one. It is an original drawn for Merlin Classics, sword up and hat on.

A classic ceramic mug in a bright white glaze, at 11 or 15 ounces, with a generous C-handle. Lead- and BPA-free; dishwasher and microwave safe.


QUICK FACTS — REDDING MUG — OLD PUT IN BRONZE

Series: Redding Collection

Design: Old Put in Bronze — General Israel Putnam on horseback, sword raised, an original figure drawn in old bronze; original Merlin Classics art, printed

Blank: white-glaze ceramic mug, C-handle

Sizes: 11 oz (0.33 l) and 15 oz (0.44 l)

Care: dishwasher and microwave safe; lead- and BPA-free

Made to order in the USA



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The same railroad brought Mark Twain. He stepped off a special train at West Redding on June 18, 1908, seventy-two years old, to see for the first time the Italian villa his biographer had talked him into building. He named it Stormfield, after the sea captain whose story had helped pay for it. That autumn he gave the town a library from his own shelves and charged his guests a dollar apiece to build it a home. His daughter Jean died at Stormfield on Christmas Eve 1909. Twain had come into the world with Halley's Comet in 1835 and said he expected to go out with it; he died at Stormfield on April 21, 1910, a day after the comet rounded the sun. The house burned in 1923. The library he founded is still open.

Why is Redding called Connecticut's Valley Forge? Because in the winter of 1778–79 Major General Israel Putnam quartered a division of the Continental Army here — about three thousand men in three camps of log huts — short of bread, blankets and shoes. Joseph Plumb Martin, a Connecticut private who wintered in Redding, remembered the season as one of starving and freezing. The main camp is now Putnam Memorial State Park.

Why People Visit Redding

People come to Redding for what is not here: no highway, no strip, no crowd. They come for a Revolutionary War camp you can walk alone on a winter morning, for sixty miles of trails, and for the hills that drew Mark Twain, Charles Ives and Edward Steichen out of New York.

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