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Captain Samuel Adams, 1689, Boston, MA; Farber Gravestone Collection

Well, those are breast-shaped gourds if I ever saw them. Oddly, the items of ornamental carving identified by the Farber Collection record don’t mention them at all: just crossbones, face, hourglass and winged skull (referring to areas of the stone not visible in this image).

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