Willimantic Thread - Babies. Capturing Elelphant Dramatizing the thread's strength, R-adv lists 6 expositions, the 1776 Centennial through the 1879 Cincinnati Exposition, in which judges declared Willimantic Thread the best. F, very light glue stain UR and LL corners of reverse. Brought $15.00 as Lot 144.04 in Trade Card Place Auction 144 on 8/21/2008.