Historic New England

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

CLAPBOARD

No description

Date: 1730-1780

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1712

Accession Number: 1959.1531

CLAPBOARD

Quite weathered with traces of brown over white paint, one end feathered and the other squared.

Date: 1737

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1713

Accession Number: 1926.978

CLAPBOARD

Part of a clapboard, now curved; much paint (white and red); one end bevelled; the reverse is circular sawn.

Date: ca. 1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1714

Accession Number: 1986.1723

CLAPBOARD

Much grey paint, both ends feathered (in opposite directions).

Date: 1832

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1715

Accession Number: 1986.1724

CLAPBOARD

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1717

Accession Number: 1986.1726

CLAPBOARD

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1719

Accession Number: 1986.1734.1

CLAPBOARD

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1720

Accession Number: 1986.1734.2

TRIM

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1721

Accession Number: 1986.1734.3

CLAPBOARD

Unpainted clapboard piece, somewhat weathered.

Date: 1668-1699

Maker: unknown

Material: softwood

GUSN: 1724

Accession Number: 1934.1930

CEILING

No description

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1725

Accession Number: 1929.1869A

CEILING

Portion of coffered ceiling; band of brown/tan paint on half-round edge and 1/2" of yellow paint along one edge.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1726

Accession Number: 1929.1869B

SHINGLE

New shingle with gray paint on both sides of the "weather" end.

Date: 1900-1991

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 1727

Accession Number: 1930.3

SHINGLE

Slim shingle, slightly weathered.

Date: 1900-1991

Maker: unknown

Material: cedar (wood)

GUSN: 1728

Accession Number: 1936.1106

SHINGLE

Little weathered.

Date: 1900-1991

Maker: unknown

Material: softwood

GUSN: 1729

Accession Number: 1936.1107

Shingle

Cedar shingle, very slim, hardly weathered.

Date: 1762

Maker: unknown

Material: cedar (wood)

GUSN: 1730

Accession Number: 1959.517

SASH, WINDOW

Six lights of glass; unpainted with heavy muntins.

Date: 1725-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), softwood

GUSN: 1731

Accession Number: 1960.49

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

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

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