Two strands of hair are set against a red fabric background in a framed display and are endorsed as Washington's by Charles Hamilton, perhaps the 20th century's best known handwriting scholar and autograph dealer. Based on written evidence, Hamilton claimed these hairs were first owned by Martha Washington's granddaughter by her first marriage, Eleanor Parke Custis, and later obtained from the Custis-Powell family of Virginia.

DOA 15.25 x 12.25 in.

With COA from University Archives, a major historical autograph dealer based in Connecticut

The COA mentions three hairs and has a xeroxed image showing two white hairs with a dark one; the frame, however, has only one white hair and the dark one.