Historic New England

Snuff Box

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: papier mâché

GUSN: 28068

Accession Number: 1918.221AB

Ironstone handless cup and saucer with mulberry-colored transfer-printed pattern with elements overglazed in blue, green, yellow and red. Border pattern of scrolls and roses. Central scene of urn, vase, and flowers.

Date: 1853

Maker: Wooliscroft, George (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), ironstone (pottery), overglazing, transfer printing

GUSN: 28069

Accession Number: 1918.228.1-.2

Handle

Patterned plate and profiled handle with through door iron bolts and nuts on back. Concave head on straight lever.

Date: 1800-1833

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal)

GUSN: 28070

Accession Number: 1918.230

Handle

Straight lever, patterned plate, and profiled handle (casting?). Two iron bolts through door at handle attachment points. Square nuts included.

Date: 1800-1833

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal)

GUSN: 28071

Accession Number: 1918.231

Card Case

Card case (A) and lid (B).

Maker: unknown

Material: ivory (tooth component)

GUSN: 28072

Accession Number: 1918.232AB

Collar

White embroidered collar with woven in silk blue ribbon, floral pattern.

Date: 1848-1858

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 28073

Accession Number: 1918.234

Cap

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 28074

Accession Number: 1918.236

Pocket Knife

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 28075

Accession Number: 1918.237

Container

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 28076

Accession Number: 1918.241

Match Holder

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 28077

Accession Number: 1918.243

Box

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 28078

Accession Number: 1918.246

Tin Trunk

Tin box with hinged, domed lid. Lid has hinged latch on side and round pull on top. Box is painted black with red and gold fruit. Box is rusted with paint loss.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 28079

Accession Number: 1918.247

Key

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 28080

Accession Number: 1918.249

Parasol

Marquise/folding parasol; black silk edged with machined Chantilly flounces; folding, black hooked handle; marquise hinge; pointed ferrule.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), Chantilly lace, lace (needlework), metal, silk (textile), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 28081

Accession Number: 1918.253

Fan

Brown silk cockade with fringe; center abalone buttons; turned wooden handle with hinge at middle; brown silk cord and tassel closure with small oval silver-like hook; diamond faceted steel cut button.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: fringe, silk (textile), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 28082

Accession Number: 1918.256

Toy Teapot

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 28084

Accession Number: 1918.259I

Box

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 28085

Accession Number: 1918.260

Chest

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: leather

GUSN: 28086

Accession Number: 1918.262

Chest

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: leather

GUSN: 28087

Accession Number: 1918.263

Ax

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: stone (rock)

GUSN: 28088

Accession Number: 1918.265

Bookmark

Welcome Lafayette bookmark.

Maker: unknown

Material: textiles

GUSN: 28091

Accession Number: 1918.268

Crane Hanger

Flat; tapers from eye to hook end.

Date: 1800-1806

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 27419

Accession Number: 1917.227

Crane Hanger

Hand-wrought. Tapered bar; large end with round head and hole in center. Opposite end turned up.

Date: 1800-1806

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought, handmade, iron (metal)

GUSN: 27420

Accession Number: 1917.229

Crane Hanger

Flat, with taper from eye end to hook.

Date: 1800-1806

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 27421

Accession Number: 1917.231

LATH

Small piece of lath with hand-wrought nail in it. Tag: "Bit of a 1695 lath with nail from B. Titcomb House, Newburyport. The creosoting is recent. The lath came from the projecting rounded end of the W. Chamber summer and helped carry the plaster coving?.

Date: ca. 1695

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought, handmade, iron (metal), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 27422

Accession Number: 1917.232

Bed Curtain Fragment

Oval, brown on off white ground of scenes of story. Woman grieving over dead man; portions of women showing pity of old beggar; cornice of building, floral and trees.

Date: 1785-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: copper engraving (printing process), fustian, alteration (process and technique)

GUSN: 27423

Accession Number: 1917.237

Brick

Two flat rectangular tiles with a round hole in the center of one end.

Date: 17th Century

Maker: unknown

Material: brick (clay product)

GUSN: 27424

Accession Number: 1917.238AB

Pitcher

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 27425

Accession Number: 1917.239

Bottle

Brown glass bottle in the shape of a log cabin with a three-tier roof.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 27426

Accession Number: 1917.240

Luncheon plate

Earthenware plate with brown transfer-print pattern "American Marine." Border pattern of two alternating scenes of sailing and steam ships framed by rope. Central scene of three-masted, fully rigged schooner in choppy seas. Two small boats with passengers in foreground, lighthouse and other sailing...

Date: 1862-1890

Maker: George L. Ashworth & Bros. (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 27427

Accession Number: 1917.241

Window Blind

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 27428

Accession Number: 1917.242

Fragment

"Piece of wood from the Old Hancock House"

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 27429

Accession Number: 1917.243

Spike

Hand-wrought spike.

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought, handmade, iron (metal)

GUSN: 27430

Accession Number: 1917.248

Box

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 27431

Accession Number: 1917.258

Seal

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 27432

Accession Number: 1917.262

Needle Case

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: ivory (tooth component)

GUSN: 27433

Accession Number: 1917.263

Spool

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 27434

Accession Number: 1917.268

Spool

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 27435

Accession Number: 1917.269

Spool

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 27436

Accession Number: 1917.270

Spool

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 27437

Accession Number: 1917.271

Spool

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 27438

Accession Number: 1917.272

PIN

Tapering, with small round-headed nail in large end.

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 27439

Accession Number: 1917.273

PIN

Tapering.

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 27440

Accession Number: 1917.274

Wedge

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 27441

Accession Number: 1917.275

Needlework Picture

Mourning picture worked in silk on a silk satin ground a woman and a small boy dressed in blue lean on either side of a memorial with two urns on top. A man at left points to the urns. There is one large weeping willow tree at left. The sky and the faces and hands of the people are painted. The pi...

Date: ca. 1804

Maker: Lyman, Mary (Embroiderer)

GUSN: 27443

Accession Number: 1917.284

Bandbox

Oval wooden bandbox and lid. Bandbox (A) and lid (B) are covered in paper printed with yellow, blue and pink flowers and bow motifs on pale pink ground (ground color is now considerably faded). Bottom of bandbox is lined with undientified newspaper dated 1836.

Date: 1836-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 27444

Accession Number: 1917.287AB

Bedspread

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 27445

Accession Number: 1917.290A

Bedspread

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 27446

Accession Number: 1917.290E

Tool

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 27447

Accession Number: 1917.313

Lid

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 27448

Accession Number: 1917.325

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