Historic New England

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

Tobacconist's Carved Signboard

This object contains harmful stereotypical imagery of Native Americans. Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England does not alter o...

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 3264

Accession Number: 1991.1048

Wooden Coffin

An unpainted wooden coffin without a lid; nail construction at shoulder angle, corf-cut and held with wedges.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: butternut (wood), nailing

GUSN: 3265

Accession Number: 1991.1049.1

Sample Gravestone

Sample gravestone with three portrait heads, and an alphabet up to "Q"; also has borders in several methods. It is well finished on three sides and rough on the bottom.

Date: 1787

Maker: Pratt, Noah (Maker)

Material: carving (processes), slate (rock)

GUSN: 3266

Accession Number: 1991.1050

Tombstone

An arched crest carved with the head and wings of a stylized angel above an inscription.

Date: 1770-1780

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), incising, stone (rock)

GUSN: 3267

Accession Number: 1991.1051

Tavern Sign

Painted wooden sign with the top section grained. In corners there are painted quarter fans and it is painted to simulate Sheraton inlaid wood. Brackets for the sign's iron hooks extend into the grained area and cross the simulated inlay 8 7/8" into the board from the top. Only one side still has it...

Date: 1810

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), oil paint (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3268

Accession Number: 1991.1052

Miniature Desk

Slant-top lid hinged with leather straps over two long drawers, each with single, carved wood pulls; the lid opens to three drawers and pigeonholes; everything is painted red.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3269

Accession Number: 1991.1053

Hanging Cupboard

Pine; scrolled crest on a rectangular case with hinged, panelled door; the door opens to three shelves; the exterior is painted red and the interior is painted white; there is a single brass pull on the d oor with a bronze lock and iron key.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 3270

Accession Number: 1991.1054

Sheathing for Boxed in Stairway

Section of feather edge sheathing which covered a boxed in stairway, probably in a front entry. The artist, Moses Eaton, applied stencils/ tempora in red and green on a faint pink background, directly to unpainted pine boards. The outlines of the stair ends can still be seen on the backs of the wide...

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: Eaton, Moses (American stencil artist, 1796-1886) (Maker)

Material: pine (wood), stenciling, tempera

GUSN: 3271

Accession Number: 1991.1055AB

Wooden Laying Out Board

A wide, long board with a rounded end. Unpainted.

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 3272

Accession Number: 1991.1056

Church Gallery Clock

Large round clock with gold face; Roman numerals; black iron hands. Face unscrews on front to access brass works; pendulum and weight.

Date: 1875-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), oil paint (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3273

Accession Number: 1991.1057

Serpent Weathervane

Weathervane cut from one piece of wood in the shape of a "serpent." Green painted finish. The tail is in the shape of an arrow, and nails are driven in at the edge to suggest scales.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 3274

Accession Number: 1991.1058

Carved Trade Sign

Two-piece, large scale wooden hand razor; joined at the end of each wooden form by a screw.

Date: 1875-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), staining, oil paint (paint), walnut (wood)

GUSN: 3275

Accession Number: 1991.1059

Checkerboard

Large board with frame and squares painted in pumpkin yellow, with four freehand painted divisions of landscapes at the ends of the board. One side of the board has numbered squares.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 3276

Accession Number: 1991.1060

Trade Sign

A heavy rectangular board, with a heavy three-part molding frame. Painted on both sides: one side has two large white houses with two sailboats and a side wheel steamer, "Liberty" in front of a house. On the reverse is an engine and string of carriages entering a station; ships in the foreground. Co...

Date: 1835-1840

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 3277

Accession Number: 1991.1061

"Minot's Light" Fireboard

Rectangular (oblong) format, with an elaborate gold frame painted around the border. View of Minot's Light at the far right with rocks behind it; a blue-green ocean is painted in stylized pattern of waves. There are several small sailing ships and a square rigger on the horizon.

Date: 1860

Maker: Drew, Clement (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 3278

Accession Number: 1991.1062

Sign Advertising Padlocks

A painted, canary-yellow sign in the shape of a giant padlock.

Date: 1860-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: copper (metal), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3279

Accession Number: 1991.1063

Toy Steam Engine Train

Toy train with five cars: steam engine with tender, an open freight car, a livestock car and a passenger car; each wooden car is of a simplified form; the engine with tender is painted medium green with red and black detailing and red wheels; the engine is embossed in gilt with "N.Y.C.R.R" and a par...

Date: 1875-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 3280

Accession Number: 1991.1064

Painted Traffic Sign

No description

Date: 1800-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3281

Accession Number: 1991.1066

Painted Panel

Painted panel, possibly a fireboard; view of a sailor boy holding a parsol and a girl holding up her skirts by the shore; a large bird is overhead; a fully rigged ship is offshore; the foliage is a dull, brownish green.

Date: 1725-1775

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 3282

Accession Number: 1991.1068

Carved Portrait of a Woman

Oval plaque of a woman, three-quarter face turned to the right. Her head and shoulders are enclosed in black drapery with yellow fringe. Her hair is parted in the middle with long curls at the sides of her face. The neck of the dress is edged with red and gold, and she wears a necklace of blue beads...

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: amber (fossil resin), carving (processes), ebony (wood), glass (material), oil paint (paint), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3283

Accession Number: 1991.1069

Portrait of Washington Gordon

Half of a rectangular, vertical format portrait of a young man, with a dark blue coat with puffed shoulders and a yellow vest with gold painted buttons. Unframed - per donor there was no sign of it ever having been framed.

Date: 1832

Maker: Attributed to Ellis, A. (Maker)

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

GUSN: 3284

Accession Number: 1991.1070

Broom

A rough hewn square handle on a segment of birch log cut into splint bristles.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: birch (wood)

GUSN: 3285

Accession Number: 1991.1072

Liquor Chest

Rectangular hinged lid with a molded edge over a conforming box with a flat base and wire handles on the sides painted brown-red. The interior is filled with 12 square compartments each holding a blown green glass liquor (gin) bottle and a corkscrew. The bottles are in various forms.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), glassblowing, pine (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3286

Accession Number: 1991.1073.1

Bottle

One of twelve deep olive-amber gin bottles in a box.

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 3287

Accession Number: 1991.1073.14

High Chair

The highchair tapers round the back posts with acorn finials joined by two arched slats. Carved arms with scrolled hand holds on tapering round front posts, and a double set of box stretchers (only back). It has a rush seat and it's all painted red.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 3288

Accession Number: 1991.1074

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