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  wicker doll carriageAn Elegant Hand-Me-Down from Newport, RI's Gilded Age

Tucked away in one of my closets is an antique wicker doll carriage abandned many years ago by my now grown-up daughters.  My mother-in-law, the late Dorothy Hogan, gave us the carriage when our daughter, Casey, was born. Casey was the first girl in two generations of Hogans, and Dorothy saved that carriage hoping someday she'd have a granddaughter to enjoy it. The fabric is worn and frayed, but the metal wheels and hinges still operate smoothly after all these years.

It was an expensive toy, elegant and built to last. In the early 1900s it belonged to a little girl who summered in a Newport "Cottage" off Ocean Drive. Sometime in the 1930s it was given to Dorothy's mother, Ethel Rabatin, a…

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