This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. As described by Halliwell-Phillips, "Fragment of a Drinking-glass found in the Cellar of the Boar's Head in East Cheap. This most interesting relic of Shakespeare's ever famous Boar's Head, the only one of the kind bearing any good claims to authenticity, is evidently a portion of a glass of Shakespeare's time.... It belonged to the late Mr. Crofton Croker, and is accompanied by the following certificate, it having been found when the Boar's Head was pulled down to make way for the new London Bridge, — 'Fragment of an ancient drinking-glass found in a cellar of the Boar's Head tavern, Eastcheap, which had not been disturbed since 1666. Given by William Knight, esq., F.S.A., 1831.— T.C.C.'"
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Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Lyttle boke gevinge a true and brief accounte of some reliques and curiosities, 14
