Show The Gavel THE gavel presented to Mr John JohnHenry JohnHenry JohnHenry Henry Smith President of the Constitutional Constitutional Constitutional Convention has some local as aswell aswell aswell well as historic The body of the gavel is of light oak hea heavily vily veneered veneered veneered ven ven- with mountain mahogany At one end is a piece from the hanging of the liberty bell and at the reverse end a bit bitof bitof bitof of the keel of ot the pay ship Augusta which was sunk opposite Red Bank N. N J. J by a masked battery during the Revolutionary Revolutionary Revolutionary Rev Rev- war and was raised eighty years later by the American Dredging Company of Philadelphia from beneath thirty feet of mud and v v. ater The handle handle handle han han- dle is of paradise wood from Temple Square The mountain mahogany is also of the material of the Temple floor The maker of the gavel is T. T K Stid- Stid ham Herald |