Historic New England

Washstand Shelf

Federal corner washstand shelf; triangular with a single rounded edge with a double arched applied gallery; allover grainpainted in brown and black; the gallery is painted freehand with green and yellow leafy sprigs and stylized blossoms; the outline of the gallery edge is pinstriped in yellow.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11234

Accession Number: 1992.406

Box

An oval bentwood box with three tapering "finger" laps and fitted cover with single "finger" lap; shaped arched swing handle held with turned wooden pins; secured with a polymer peg; natural finish.

Date: 1960-1980

Maker: unknown

Material: bentwood, birch (wood), maple (wood)

GUSN: 11235

Accession Number: 1992.407AB

Rug

Rectangular rug with a spray of roses on a beige field; enclosed by polychrome striped border; roses are worked in red, yellow, green and black; cotton fabrics on a burlap foundation backed with a green/beige wool blanket material and bound with a beige wool tape.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11236

Accession Number: 1992.638

Doorstop

Of Bee Skep shape on slightly fearing straight sided base, molded in translucent aqua colored glass , with a threaded interior.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), molding (forming)

GUSN: 11238

Accession Number: 1992.403

Child's Bonnet

White muslin child's bonnet with wheat sheath design, lace border, eyelet accents.

Maker: unknown

Material: lace (needlework), muslin

GUSN: 11239

Accession Number: 1992.100

Needlework Pattern

Hooked rug pattern with sketched design of leaves.

Maker: unknown

Material: cloth

GUSN: 11240

Accession Number: 1992.183

Dress Chart

Cardboard dress chart, one for "back" and the other "neck" with manufacturered information.

Date: 1862

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard, transfer printing

GUSN: 11243

Accession Number: 1992.182

Sterescope

Stereoscope with ivory plate on cover, spiral stand, chased brass binges finely finished walnut, with removeable lenses in frame.

Maker: Charles Nephew & Co (Maker)

Material: engraving (printing process), glass (material), walnut (wood), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 11248

Accession Number: 1941.378

Photograph

Print of a landscape photograph, framed picture of the Old Gardiner Homestead, with handwritten text written on top and below of picture regarding the Gardiner Family history, with crest and armorial bearings of Gardiner Oxfordshire. Photographed by A.H. Folsom, 1870.

Date: 1834-1867

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11249

Accession Number: 1992.8

Hook

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11250

Accession Number: 1917.852

Hatpin

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11258

Accession Number: 1917.887

Wallet

Red Moroccan leather with green lining; leather strap closure, 5 compartments and 1 pencil holder.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: leather, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11264

Accession Number: 1917.906

Painted Trade Sign

Rectangular board embellished with borders in green stripse and blue and red dots; on the right is a stencilled figure of a horse and a man with a high-crowned hat in his hand.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: Possibly Blood, Miles (Maker)

Material: painting (coating)

GUSN: 11269

Accession Number: 1991.1065

Portrait of Prudence Waters

Rectangular format of the head and shoulders of a woman in a dark brown oval; she wears a rust rose dress with a muslin cap; the frame is ebonized with an inner gold molding.

Date: 1779

Maker: Chandler, Winthrop, 1747-1790 (Maker)

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 11270

Accession Number: 1991.1067.2

Sugar Bowl Lid

The domed rectangular cover has a flower blossom knop and a mount printed with a floral motif.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, incising, molding (forming), transfer printing

GUSN: 11286

Accession Number: 1991.1025B

Portrait of a Woman

Rectangular, vertical format portrait of a seated woman, three-quarter length. Companion portrait to Cyrus French. She is wearing a shawl and cap.

Date: 1786

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 11293

Accession Number: 1991.1041.2

Trestles

A pair of crude trestles with wood branches for supporting poles, which are minimally curved and pegged into the cross bar- a square rough pine piece. The wooden crossbars are 2" square, between the legs at the base it is 17 1/2".

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood)

GUSN: 11295

Accession Number: 1991.1049.2

Portrait of Lucy Cogswell Burnham (1813-1879)

This portrait of a seated woman with corkscrew curls, black hair, dark eyes and facing slightly to her right is one of a pair. She is wearing a black dress with a lace-edged collar, and a gold-framed hair brooch pinned to her bodice. She wears a white-edged black shawl off her left shoulder, and her...

Date: 1849

Maker: Wiggin, Alfred J. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 11303

Accession Number: 1991.972.2

A Calm

One of two. A small rectangular format print of marine subjects; labeled below the image in large letters, A CALM. In turn, under this in small letters is another inscription. The picture depicts a harbor with numerous boats, clipper/sail/rowing; in the background are rolling green hills. In the imm...

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: Possibly Fuirburn, J. (Maker)

Material: hand coloring, ink, paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 11304

Accession Number: 1991.1652.1

A Storm

One of two. A small rectangular format print of marine subjects; labeled below the image in large letters, A STORM. In turn, under this in small letters is another inscription. The scene depicts a wind-swept sky, a stormy green sea tossing a large clipper ship with a union jack side to the left. On ...

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: Possibly Fuirburn, J. (Maker)

Material: hand coloring, ink, paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 11305

Accession Number: 1991.1652.2

Picture of a Bird

Of rectangular format, of a bird composed of feathers. A brown and white flecked bird, with grey painted legs and beak, the eye of cut-out paper; it is standing on a jutting rock in a minimally sketched island of landscape. The land scape consists of a patch of grassy area, a white flower at the rig...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: feather (material), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 11306

Accession Number: 1991.1653.1

Picture of a Bird

Of rectangular format, of a bird composed of feathers. A bird with a blue head and neck and a brown body flecked with blue and green-brown. The birds stands in a small oval of landscape, the mirror of 1991.1653.1, except that instead of pines there is a sinuous tree with four feathery, leaf laden br...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: feather (material), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 11307

Accession Number: 1991.1653.2

Painted Tavern Sign

Round of wood with two half-moon landscapes of romantic scenes, with lettering in gold leaf, in two pink painted billiard balls. The wooden edge is painted green. The upper scene is of a castle and manor house with a female figure in the landscape. The lower scene depicts a farmer in a village cotta...

Date: 1859

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11308

Accession Number: 1991.1655

Painting

A rectangular format landscape scene, with a river containing sailboats and one rowboat. On the banks of the river at in the foreground is a road leading into the picture and a grove of trees at the center, with a tall tree and cabin at the right, and a cliff to the left. In the middle ground is a s...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: Possibly Bradey (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 11309

Accession Number: 1991.1656

Bed

It has "sleigh bed" form head and foot boards with rolled top rail and eurolinen uprights with oval feet enclosing rectangular panels. It is painted a creamy white/grey and heightened with decorative blue pinstriping and corner scrolled devices centering a polychrome floral spray. It has shaped side...

Date: 1835-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: hardwood, painting (coating)

GUSN: 11310

Accession Number: 1991.1657

Furniture Hardware

Set of William & Mary-style brass escutcheons and drop handles, including: 1 keyhole escutcheon, 3 pull plates, 2 small & 1 large teardrop pulls, and 1 cotter pin. The plates are etched with characteristic stylized leaf and circle decoration; originally from a larger set per attached tag. Height of ...

Date: 1690-1720

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), etching (corroding), etching (printing process), leaf (plant material), foliation (pattern), leaf (metal), stamping (forming)

GUSN: 11082

Accession Number: 1991.1393.1-7

Board, Game

Bobby and Betty's Trip to the New York World's Fair board game, includes a board and small red cardboard box. Box contains: "Rules for the Game"; two dice; four wooden "play pieces" in red, yellow, green and blue; game cards (25 out of 26 inventoried, plus 2 promotional cards); and promotion sale b...

Date: 1939-1933

Maker: Parker Brothers Inc. (Maker)

Material: cardboard, paper (fiber product), printing (process), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 11083

Accession Number: 1992.188

Wall Mirror

Black painted pine Queen Anne small wall mirror, with molded square frame below a three part shaped high crest continuous with the back panel, with a rounded top of crest with a bent-nail self hook, and is somewhat crude.

Date: 1720-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), gluing, mirrors, nailing, painting (coating), pine (wood), glass (material)

GUSN: 11084

Accession Number: 1991.1475

Trinket Box and Lid

Oval Shaker-style tinket box (B) with pointed laps. The ground is painted yellow with a black stylized floral decoration on the lid (B)and black splashes to the sides. It is a maple box with the lid possibly made from ash. There are also some wooden pegs, copper tacks and other metal tacks.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), bentwood, copper (metal), maple (wood), metal, painting (coating)

GUSN: 11086

Accession Number: 1991.1491AB

Coconut Box Lid

Globe-shaped coconut box with slightly domed circular lid with an ebony turned knop on a bulbous round body raised on a turned ebony shaft and domed coconut base. The lid, body and base are densly carved with animal figures in round or lunette shaped reserves, enclosed by varriously patterned border...

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), coconut (fruit), ebony (wood), incising, lining (process)

GUSN: 11087

Accession Number: 1991.1493A

Carved Coconut Box

Globe-shaped coconut box with slightly domed circular lid with a turned ebony knop on a bulbous round body raised on a turned ebony shaft and domed coconut base. The lid, body and base are densly carved with animal figures in round or lunette shaped reserves, enclosed by varriously patterned borders...

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), coconut (fruit), ebony (wood), incising, lining (process)

GUSN: 11088

Accession Number: 1991.1493B

Hook

"S" shaped hook with squared ends.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 11089

Accession Number: 1991.1501

Hook

Candy cane shaped hook with "L" shaped base.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 11090

Accession Number: 1991.1502

Trammel

One end with curved-tip hook on tapering pierced shaft and pierced projecting terminal.

Date: 1740-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 11091

Accession Number: 1991.1504

Ratcheting Iron Trammel

Wrought iron trammel; large with an adjustable sawtooth extension attached to the round arm above the flattened hook at the bottom and a flattened hook at the top. The height stretches from 17-25 1/2".

Date: 1700-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: cutting (dividing), iron (metal), welding, wrought

GUSN: 11092

Accession Number: 1991.1505

Comb Box Lid

A cardboard comb box, of demi-lune shape, deep, with a conforming lid, covered with blue paper, sewn together, its lid bearing a rectangular printed label with an inscription.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard, paper (fiber product), string (fiber product)

GUSN: 11093

Accession Number: 1991.1636A

Comb Box

A cardboard comb box, of demi-lune shape, deep, with a conforming lid, covered with blue paper, sewn together, its lid bearing a rectangular printed label with an inscription.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard, paper (fiber product), string (fiber product)

GUSN: 11094

Accession Number: 1991.1636B

Hair Comb

Tortise shell hair comb, medium-large rounded-back form, the top centered with pot out of which scrolls circular leafage backed with tiny stars, above another horizontal partition with foliate scrolls, all above 17 long teeth (three missing), repairs.

Date: 1815-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), etching (corroding), etching (printing process), molding (forming), tortoise shell

GUSN: 11095

Accession Number: 1991.1638

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb, large, rounded fan shape, eleven long rounded teeth. The fanned top is molded and pierce carved into elaborate foliate shell decoration with a small central peony. Typical of large, high, carved combs of the 1830s.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 11096

Accession Number: 1991.1639

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 1991.1649). Long face, prominant features, eyeballs colored to accentuate the eyes, mouth and nostrils are incised. Surfaces appear dark with age. Its eyes are brown and it has dark...

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11097

Accession Number: 1991.1650

Doorstop

Wooden, mushroom-shaped cap; cylindrical body; natural finish.

Date: 1820-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 11098

Accession Number: 1992.434

Watercolor

This watercolor depicts a woman in a red dress holding a parasol in her left hand and a four- leafed spray. She stands within a black carpenter's square (bottom) and a compass (top). At either side of her are flowering vines terminating in red and yellow tulips. The verses are inscribed on the outsi...

Date: 1775-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: ink, painting (coating), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 11099

Accession Number: 1992.435

Rug

Rectangular form patterned with free-form flowering vine enclosed on three sides by undulating border of small flowering vines. Worked in shades of pink, green, cream, blue, black and brown-green fringe at two ends. The sides are bound in brown wool.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11100

Accession Number: 1992.436

Decoy

An unpainted decoy with an oblong body with an inletted head with carved eyes; initials are carved on the underside. It has faint gray patches at the wings.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), cedar (wood)

GUSN: 11101

Accession Number: 1992.437

Candle Dryer

Rectangular form with a flattened top, pierced with a hanging hole over a chamfered, hexagonal body which has 6 projecting carved arms. Two arms hold hand dipped tallon candles. It has a natural finish.

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), hewing

GUSN: 11102

Accession Number: 1992.438

Fireplace Tongs

Cast brass belted ball finial and turned shaft over iron "arms" with flattened penny shaped grips.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal)

GUSN: 11103

Accession Number: 1992.439

Hearth Broom

Yellow painted rod-like handle, pierced with a hanging hole with a wide width straw broom held in place by three wire ringd. Hangin holes have a red, white & blue ribbon through it.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: wire, straw (plant material), pine (wood)

GUSN: 11104

Accession Number: 1992.440