Historic New England

BALUSTER

Turned, with dowel on one end; painted white.

Date: 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1648

Accession Number: 1986.1760

Baluster

Turned; tenons on both ends; dark red over white paint.

Date: 1725-1775

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1649

Accession Number: 1986.1762

BALUSTER

Doweled; one end angled; square base with block between two turned sections; tan over white, green and red paint.

Date: 1725-1775

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1650

Accession Number: 1986.1763

BALUSTER

Painted white; bevelled on one end and dowelled at the other; fluted shaft.

Date: 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1651

Accession Number: 1986.1764

BALUSTER

Painted white and doweled at one end.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1652

Accession Number: 1986.1765

BALUSTER

Turned; painted black over earlier layers of white and perhaps mahogany finish.

Date: 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1653

Accession Number: 1986.1766

Fanlight

Wooden glazing bars, some curved in imitation of leaded tracery; white paint.

Date: ca. 1775

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1655

Accession Number: 1940.1030B

Fanlight

White paint.

Date: ca. 1810

Maker: Banner, Peter, Mr. (Architect)

GUSN: 1656

Accession Number: 1981.285.2

SHINGLE

Split and shaved; unused.

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), shaving (process), splitting

GUSN: 1657

Accession Number: 1915.8

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1660

Accession Number: 1986.1786

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1662

Accession Number: 1986.1787

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1665

Accession Number: 1986.1788

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1666

Accession Number: 1986.1789

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1667

Accession Number: 1986.1790

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1668

Accession Number: 1986.1791

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1669

Accession Number: 1986.1792

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1670

Accession Number: 1986.1793

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1671

Accession Number: 1986.1794

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1672

Accession Number: 1986.1795

MODILLION BLOCK

No description

Date: ca. 1717

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1674

Accession Number: 1986.1796.1-2

TRIM

No description

Date: 1700-1799

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1675

Accession Number: 1986.1797

TRIM

Bolection molding.

Date: ca. 1700

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1676

Accession Number: 1986.1798

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1681

Accession Number: 1986.1799

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1683

Accession Number: 1986.1800

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1684

Accession Number: 1986.1801

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1685

Accession Number: 1986.1802

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1687

Accession Number: 1986.1803

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1690

Accession Number: 1986.1804

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1692

Accession Number: 1986.1805

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1696

Accession Number: 1986.1806

Beam

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1701

Accession Number: 1986.1844A

Sill

No description

Date: ca. 1659

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1702

Accession Number: 1986.1845

WOOD

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1703

Accession Number: 1986.1844B

DOORKNOB

Slightly rounded knob attached to rectangular wooden plate.

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1705

Accession Number: 1926.977

STAIR END

Scroll end with attached nosing; dark grey paint.

Date: 1730-1790

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1706

Accession Number: 1986.1941

Seaweed

Three bunches.

Date: 1650-1700

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1707

Accession Number: 1986.1843

CLAPBOARD

Clapboard with a faintly beaded edge and one end unpainted; red paint.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1711

Accession Number: 1986.1720

Blanket Chest

No description

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, pine (wood), poplar (wood)

GUSN: 2665

Accession Number: 1991.887

Pineapple Carving

A carved wooden pineapple with veined leaves and a leafy top. It has original green and red paint.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2666

Accession Number: 1991.888

Billet Head

Large billet head well carved and painted buff. Apparently a model as it has never been in use. [see photo neg#45718-A]

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: Skillin (I or II), Simeon, Mr., d. 1830 (Maker)

Material: carving (processes), painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2667

Accession Number: 1991.889

Launching of the USS Washington

(A) Large, almost square format, view of three-quarter sky and a ship emerging from a shiphouse at Portsmouth, NH, with a second ship and a strip of land in the background. There are also scattered figures in small craft, on land and in boats. Six prominent flags are displayed from the ships. It is ...

Date: 1814-1815

Maker: Attributed to Blunt, John S., 1798-1835 (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2668

Accession Number: 1991.891AB

Signboard

Square format with two-handled gold vase with flowers; mounted on 2 scrolls with foliage and 2 outward facing swans; band of yellow-brown at base and green stripe enclosing the whole.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), panels (wood), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2669

Accession Number: 1991.892

Rug Runner

Of long, narrow form, patterned with a flowering vine in shades of tan, red, blue, green tan and brown on a dark green ground. It is enclosed by a green and blue scalloped inner border and a polychrome striped outer border. It has a braided binding and a black cotton sateen background.

Date: 1865-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 2670

Accession Number: 1991.895

Hooked Rug

Of nearly square form, patterned with a polychrome eight-pointed star with a "bulls-eye" pattern centered on a brown field. Also with rainbow-like quarter rounds in the corners.

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2671

Accession Number: 1991.896

Hooked Rug

Of rectangular form with varriegated black and green background patterned with large "wooly" peach and green flower blossoms. It is edged in black binding tape and rebacked with burlap.

Date: 1875-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2672

Accession Number: 1991.897

Basket

A shallow, circular basket woven in cross-hatched pattern (lower part) and openwork diamonds (upper part). It has a double woven bottom.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: staining, willow (wood), weaving

GUSN: 2673

Accession Number: 1991.898

Faux Fruit

Wax covered composition fruit as well as a few solid wax and plaster-of-paris wax dipped fruit. 1. Red apple with a plastic stem-good condition 2. Yellow apple with a plastic stem and red blush color- cracked. 3. Yellow apple with a rolled stem and a pink blush color- good condition. 4. Yellow pea...

Maker: unknown

Material: plaster of Paris, wax

GUSN: 2674

Accession Number: 1991.899.1-19

Blue Heron Decoy

Blue heron "confidence" decoy assembled in five parts on a homemade rough hewn base. It has a small head and it is all painted grey, except for the base; small white circle is near the tail section.

Date: 1907

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2675

Accession Number: 1991.900

Bay Fa

Each of near square form with medallion centers of beige with green and madder meander and smaller red, green, blue and beige. It has conforming medallions on a dark blue field with connected octagons of yellow and rose and tiny quatrafoil devices within a sawtooth inner border and beige outer borde...

Date: 1875-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: knotting, wool (textile)

GUSN: 2676

Accession Number: 1991.901.1-2

Jug

The jug has a thick handle on a wide collar, sloping shoulders and a cylindrical body. It is decorated with a foliate scroll device at the shoulder.

Date: 1860-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: stoneware (pottery), glazing (coating)

GUSN: 2677

Accession Number: 1991.902

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