Historic New England

Inkwell

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 28477

Accession Number: 1918.1435

Tray

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 28478

Accession Number: 1918.1437

Container

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 28479

Accession Number: 1918.1438

Saucepan

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 28480

Accession Number: 1918.1439

Cup

Large, redware ovoid-shaped drinking cup with strap handle. Dark brown or black glaze.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, redware, glazing (coating)

GUSN: 28481

Accession Number: 1918.1443

Preserving Jar

Brown and gold mottled glaze; flared lip.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: glaze, enamel (fused coating), stoneware (pottery)

GUSN: 28482

Accession Number: 1918.1444

Mug

Stoneware ceramic mug.

Maker: unknown

Material: stoneware (pottery)

GUSN: 28483

Accession Number: 1918.1445

Match Holder

Porcelain match holder.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 28484

Accession Number: 1918.1446AB

Pincushion

Small round pincushion with embroidered floral designs on a black background; border of white background overlaid with green vines going around the middle.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 28485

Accession Number: 1918.1447

Pincushion made from two round dark blue/brown fulled wool shapes sewn to a strip of silk, forming a flat-sidedd round cushion. The top and bottom (wool) sides are decorated with an elaborate polychrome quatrefoil design of curled geometric shapes picked out in pink, blue and white seed beads on one...

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 28486

Accession Number: 1918.1448

Quill

Maker: unknown

Material: feather (material)

GUSN: 28487

Accession Number: 1918.1451

Change Purse

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: leather

GUSN: 28488

Accession Number: 1918.1452

Shovel

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 28489

Accession Number: 1918.1455

Shovel

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 28490

Accession Number: 1918.1456

Shovel

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 28491

Accession Number: 1918.1457

Shovel

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 28492

Accession Number: 1918.1458

Shovel

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 28493

Accession Number: 1918.1459

Tongs

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 28494

Accession Number: 1918.1461

Fireplace Tongs

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 28495

Accession Number: 1918.1462

Fireplace Tongs

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 28496

Accession Number: 1918.1463

Fireplace Tongs

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 28497

Accession Number: 1918.1464

Nail

Brass-headed nail, modern manufacture. tag: "New nail of the variet;y bought to match 1917.225 which was an old brass-headed nail found in Otis House. Its date and use are uncertain but nails were used, belie, as window fastener."

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), metal

GUSN: 27418

Accession Number: 1917.226

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

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