Historic New England

doll's moccasins

Pink, blue, and white beads and red cuffs

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: beads (pierced objects), chamois (animal material), silk (textile)

GUSN: 1163

Accession Number: 1969.6816

doll's petticoat

Off-white with eyelet trim

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 1164

Accession Number: 1969.6817

doll's dress

A. orange and tan print on white. Deep collar over shoulders, flared sleeves, pointed waist, gathered skirt. 6 rows of white tape on collar and sleeves.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), shell (animal material)

GUSN: 1165

Accession Number: 1969.6818.1

doll's sleeves

A. orange and tan print on white. 2 buttons and loops. Narrow

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), shell (animal material)

GUSN: 1166

Accession Number: 1969.6818.2

doll's bodice

White with fitted bodice with low waist and peplum and pagoda sleeves.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), crocheting

GUSN: 1167

Accession Number: 1969.6819

doll's dress

Blue and white pleated front and back. Long sleeves, decorated with two rows of braid. Lined with white cotton

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), wool (textile)

GUSN: 1168

Accession Number: 1969.6820

doll's dress

Blue and white, deep pleating across the bodice and shoulders. Pointed waistline, gathered skirt, tucks

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), silk (textile), wool (textile)

GUSN: 1169

Accession Number: 1969.6821

doll's combination

One piece garment of bodice and pantaloons, white. It has 5 buttons

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 1170

Accession Number: 1969.6822

doll's shawl

White

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework)

GUSN: 1171

Accession Number: 1969.6823

doll's cape

Trimmed with grey ribbon. Deep collar. Fastens with loops and buttons. Lined with grey-green lining

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cloth, silk (textile), taffeta, wool (textile)

GUSN: 1172

Accession Number: 1969.6824

doll's two piece dress

White with blue pattern. eyelet edging

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 1173

Accession Number: 1969.6825.1

doll's two piece dress

White with blue pattern. eyelet edging

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 1174

Accession Number: 1969.6825.2

doll's mantel

Black, shaped at shoulders, two bands of braid and rows of black

Date: 1860-1869

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework), silk (textile), taffeta

GUSN: 1175

Accession Number: 1969.6826

Doll's mantle

Black

Maker: unknown

Material: lace (needlework)

GUSN: 1176

Accession Number: 1969.6827

doll's bodice

Long-sleeved, off white, woven stripe, cotton bodice with pleated peplum with lace edge.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework)

GUSN: 1177

Accession Number: 1969.6828

doll's apron

Black, skirt style, tightly gathered at waist with ribbon/sash ties

Date: 1860-1869

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), taffeta

GUSN: 1178

Accession Number: 1969.6829

doll's skirt

Blue and white plaid stripe

Date: 1860-1869

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), silk (textile)

GUSN: 1179

Accession Number: 1969.6830

doll's combination

White

Date: 1860-1869

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework)

GUSN: 1180

Accession Number: 1969.6831

doll's undersleeves

White

Date: 1860-1869

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering

GUSN: 1181

Accession Number: 1969.6832

doll's undersleeves

Dotted white

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework)

GUSN: 1182

Accession Number: 1969.6833

doll, sunbonnet

Black, and white checked cotton, colored ribbons, which tie under the chin and in the back.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework), silk (textile)

GUSN: 1183

Accession Number: 1969.6834

Yardstick

A rectangular section of whalebone with a chamfered molded profile on one side with incised lines filled with black pigment marking the measurements. Marks are incised at 2.25, 4.5, and 18".

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: chamfering, incising, ink, baleen

GUSN: 3128

Accession Number: 1991.1628

A rectangular lid with chamfered edges hinged to the conforming case, raised on all four squared legs with cut-out at the feet. Rose-head nail construction. The lid has an iron hasp which closes over the iron loop on the case, and an iron lock and key. The chest is unpainted.

Date: 1790-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood), chamfering, iron (metal), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3129

Accession Number: 1991.1629

Sewing Bird

In the form of an oversized clothes pin with a turned finial with flattened sides on a turned-flat sided, line incised clamp with threaded wood screw with heart shaped knob incised "1797" at one side. The clamp is surrounded by two ball-shaped green wool pin cushions retaining embroidered fragments ...

Date: 1775-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3130

Accession Number: 1991.1630

Soap Dish

Redware soapdish, small and round with rounded sides and a flat outflared rim, covered with an orange-red lead glaze with dark/black specks throughout. Part of a toiletry set.

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glaze, redware, throwing (pottery technique)

GUSN: 3131

Accession Number: 1991.1631

Cup

a redware cup, of cylindrical form with out-turned rim, covered with an orange-red lead glaze with dark/black specks. Part of a toiletry set.

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glaze, redware, throwing (pottery technique)

GUSN: 3132

Accession Number: 1991.1632

Hand Mirror

A hand mirror of hand carved pine in odd triangular form, made to fit a long broken piece of mirrored glass, held in with metal pins, with tapered handle and a round knob at the end.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), metal, mirrors, pine (wood), glass (material)

GUSN: 3133

Accession Number: 1991.1633

Comb

Baleen comb, flat and carved into the shape of a whale, with an upturned tail for a handle, teeth at the head/torso area and two incised lines around the teeth.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: baleen, carving (processes), incising

GUSN: 3134

Accession Number: 1991.1634

Sliding Candlestand

An octangonal candle cup on a long sliding, rectangular stem, flauted by two rectangular posts. It is raised on a heavy, slant-sided base with 3-peg feet. All are painted red.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3135

Accession Number: 1991.1635

Hair Comb

Tortise shell (or horn) hair comb, medium-large rounded-back form, its top a plain two inch panel with straight top, above a series of long narrow teeth (some missing).

Date: 1815-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves, horn (animal material), molding (forming), tortoise shell

GUSN: 3136

Accession Number: 1991.1637

Bedpan

Round bedpan with a wide lip and nozzle end, covered with an orange glaze and bown splotches.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glaze, redware

GUSN: 3137

Accession Number: 1991.1640

Windsor Stool

Round top with a padded, hooked seat with worked in wool yarns, with a red and green floral spig at the center on a tan ground enclosed by green leaf-shaped devices, and green wool fringe. It is raised on four splayed rod-turned legs joined by box stretches and grain painted in red and black. The se...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), graining, hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 3138

Accession Number: 1991.1642

Desk on Frame

Desk on frame. Pine with original cart blue paint. Top has fall front with six pigeon holes and open spaces below. Base has no drawer, chamfered legs with no turnings, and plain stretchers. In two sections; hinged thumb molded slant top box opening.

Date: 1780-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3139

Accession Number: 1991.1643

Carved Wooden Box

A slightly domed hinged lid on a conforming box, a carved surface (except the back), the top of the lid is carved with quarter circles centering the inscription. The sides are carved with a diamond pattern centering a heart at the front keyhole and six pointed stars at the ends; the heart and stars ...

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), carving (processes), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3140

Accession Number: 1991.1644

Marine Sandglass

Maritime hour glass with reversible case/wall bracket. Half-hour measure; used to determine ship's speed in knots.

Date: 1730-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), glass (material), sand

GUSN: 3141

Accession Number: 1991.1645

Rug

Rectangular hooked rug with a green oval on a blue field; scrolls in the corners; abstract flowers worked in blue, pink, red, and green in the center.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, cotton (textile), hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 3142

Accession Number: 1991.1646

Rug

Rectangular form with centered polychrome stylized floral heads enclosed by 4 oak leaves and within a red, green, pink flower sprig and leafy border, all on a vauegated tan gound of green and brown.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, cotton (textile), hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 3143

Accession Number: 1991.1647

Chair

Turned back posts with modified mushroom finials joined by three arched slats (one slat below seat). Rounded front posts and a trapezoidal shaped seat; three red-turned stretchers front and sides, two red-turned stretchers at the back, painted red. A woven string seat.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), painting (coating), string (fiber product), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 3144

Accession Number: 1991.1648

Carved Head

A small head standing on squared base, all carved from one piece of wood (2 carvings were made from this piece of wood 1991.1650). Long face, prominant features, eyeballs colored to accentuate the eyes, mouth and nostrils are incised. Surfaces appear dark with age. Face has been painted red, eyes an...

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), pine (wood), whittling

GUSN: 3145

Accession Number: 1991.1649

Canada Goose

Carved and painted decoy representing a goose, of the "Loomer" type, in a swimming position; with a brown back, and black tail, head and underbelly.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), wood (plant material), carving (processes), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3146

Accession Number: 1991.1651

Writing-Arm Windsor Rocking Chair

Windsor style writing-arm chair, supported on an integrant end of the seat. Black spindles terminate in a straight crest rail. Under the writing arm are three small drawers one above the other, and one long narrow drawer at the front most edge. There is evidence that there was once a long drawer ben...

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood), painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3147

Accession Number: 1991.1212

Watch Case

An inlaid mahogony watch case, of clock-face shape with arched base. The demi-lune top is edged with brass above thin strips of bone outline conforming to the shape of the bone diamond-shaped inlay, with four round inlaid pieces of ebony at each corner. An open round center reveals the watch, where,...

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material), brass (alloy), cutting (dividing), ebony (wood), inlay (process), mahogany (wood), nailing

GUSN: 3148

Accession Number: 1991.1219

Pocket Watch

Silverplate pocketwatch, round with a ring at the top. White face with large black Roman numerals, blue hands, a seconds dial above 6 o'clock, and gold works with a makers mark. It has a glass front and a wind-up on the back.

Date: 1850-1899

Maker: A.W. Co. (Maker)

Material: glass (material), gold (metal), silver (metal), plate (material)

GUSN: 3149

Accession Number: 1991.1220

Mug

Silver-mounted coconut shell in the form of a cream pot.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), coconut (fruit), silver (metal)

GUSN: 3150

Accession Number: 1991.1381

Decorated Door Panel

Pair of paint-decorated door panels; one depicts church building ina landscape setting; the other depicts two trees in a landscape.

Date: 1775-1779

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), panels (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3151

Accession Number: 1991.1589.1-2

Dulcimer

Trapezoidal body of pine. Three sets of sound holes in top. Twenty-eight hand-forged iron tuning pins at one end and twenty-eight small iron hitch pins at opposite end.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), carving (processes), iron (metal), nailing, painting (coating), pine (wood), string (fiber product)

GUSN: 3152

Accession Number: 1991.1641

Handwritten History

No description

Date: 1920

Maker: Angell, Frank C. (Maker)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 3153

Accession Number: 1991.769

Relief Montage

Rectangular format montage of a three-masted ship carved and applied to a wooden background that is painted blue. The sails are in high relief. Small figures are painted on the bowsprit, in the rigging, and on the crow's nest. There are two boats on deck. It is in a flat, rectangular, veneered frame...

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), leather, painting (coating)

GUSN: 3154

Accession Number: 1991.824

Toy Village

Carved wooden village; buildings, trees, male and female figures; painted.

Date: 1940-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), painting (coating), carving (processes)

GUSN: 3155

Accession Number: 1991.847

Picture, Carved

Rectangular wood panel painted with sky, ocean and breakers with applied dick in flight carved in 3/4 round and realistically painted in brown, yellow and red.

Date: 1890-1895

Maker: Folger, James Walter (Maker)

Material: carving (processes), painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3156

Accession Number: 1991.848

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