The 1880 replica marked three was presented to Robert Charles Winthrop by Secretary of State William A Evarts on January 13, 1881. It was gifted to the Boston Athenaeum by Winthrop's daughter in 1947 where it remains in their collection. It bears a photograph duplicate of the original's inscription and no secondary labels.
Mr Winthrop was a member of a prominent and long standing Boston family with deep ties to the original Massachusetts colony. He was also a friend of Joseph Coolidge and had displayed the original desk during a meeting of the the Boston Historical Society in 1857 and then publicly in Boston during the 1876 centennial where he gave a speech where the desk was prominently mentioned. Later after Coolidge's death and the decision made by the heirs to donate the relic to the nation, he carried it to Washington and presented it to President Hayes at the Executive Mansion in April of 1880.
Images below are courtesy of the Boston Athenaeum
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