Sometimes you find the strangest things at estate sales.
You have to take them at their word (or writing). Who would make something up like that?
I couldn't find any info on a remodel that took place at Mt. Vernon in 1954. At first I thought it was probably tile from a later period after a previous renovation, but it appears to be quarried stone that's been glazed rather than ceramic, so who knows?
The things this tile must have witnessed (besides a naked George Washington).
not to mention a naked MARTHA washington!
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