Raynors HCA 2015-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2015
John Kennedy’s personal wedding gift to Torbert Hart Macdonald was this black umbrella with an engraved band “J.F.K., 9-12-53, T.H.M.” The umbrella is operational, the material has several repairable splits at the spooks, the band has very minor oxidation. On September 11, 1953, the eve of the wedding, a bridal dinner was held at Newport’s Seaside Clambake Club. Senator Kennedy presented each of his ushers with a Brooks Brothers umbrella engraved with initials and the wedding date. His ushers were Edward M. Kennedy, Charles Bartlett, Michael Canfield, George Smathers, K. LeMoyne Billings, Torbert Macdonald, Charles Spalding, James Reed, Benjamin Smith, Joseph Gargan, R. Sargent Shriver, Paul B. Fay, Jr., and Hugh D. Auchincloss III.
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