Melted Majesty

July 9, 1776. Five days after the Declaration was signed, Washington had it read aloud to his troops in New York. That night the crowd marched down to Bowling Green, threw ropes around the gilded statue of King George III, and pulled the whole thing down. The 4,000 pounds of lead got hauled by oxcart to an apple orchard in Litchfield, Connecticut, where the Wolcott family and their neighbors built furnaces and spent weeks pouring the king into bullet molds. Their daughter Mariann kept the tally: 42,088 musket balls, fired back at the King's own army at the Battle of Monmouth. The papers called it melted majesty. The back features the toppled king in full 18th century engraving style. The front carries his crown, upside down in the rubble, right where they left it. This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!