Toy Boat

Mystic, CT  2016

Antique Toy

Niantic, CT

Children growing up in the mid 1800's likely would have played with a toy like this.  Although the Smith-Harris House has been restored to resemble what it would've looked like back in the mid to late 1800's, none of the furnishings or accents are original to the house.  When the city of East Lyme bought the home and property and were considering tearing down the house, they hired someone to clean the house, and haul off all the furnishings to the city dump.  So a lot of genuine antiques were sadly lost.