Historic New England

Dinner Knife Blades

Pair of silver dinner knife blades.

Date: 1860-1900

Maker: Horton & Co. (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 103705

Accession Number: 2008.43.6.1-.2

Dinner Knife Blades

Pair of silver dinner knife blades with a broken bone handle.

Date: 1860-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal), bone (material)

GUSN: 103706

Accession Number: 2008.43.7.1-.2

Dinner Knife

Silver dinner knife with a plastic handle and a rounded blade.

Date: 1860-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal), plastic (organic material)

GUSN: 103707

Accession Number: 2008.43.8

Knife Handle

Rectangular bone knife handle.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material)

GUSN: 103708

Accession Number: 2008.43.9

Butter Knife

Silver butter knife with an upturned oval handle and a curved blade.

Date: 1865

Maker: Reed & Barton (Manufacturer)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 103709

Accession Number: 2008.43.10

Wooden chest of drawers painted mustard yellow with floral and scroll stencil decoration on drawers and top, four equal size drawers with round wood pulls, turned pilasters on sides of front, reverse serpentine shaped skirt.

Date: ca. 1859

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103710

Accession Number: 2008.26.1.1

Dresser Mirror

Rectangular wood mirror [A] painted yellow with floral and scroll stencil decoration, serpentine shaped crown [B], two turned supports on each side [C and D].

Date: ca. 1859

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103711

Accession Number: 2008.26.1.2A-D

Washstand

Wooden washstand converted into a desk, painted yellow with floral and scroll stencil decoration, features flip open desktop, two front drawers over a cabinet, candlestand attached on right side.

Date: ca. 1859

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103712

Accession Number: 2008.26.2

Bed

Wood bed painted yellow with floral and scroll stencil decoration, head and foot boards feature turned posts and spindles.

Date: ca. 1859

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103713

Accession Number: 2008.26.3A-F

Chair

Yellow painted wood chair with floral and scroll decoration, serpentine crest rail, four turned splats, cane seat, and turned legs.

Date: ca. 1859

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103714

Accession Number: 2008.26.4.1

Bedside Table

Wood bedside table painted yellow with floral and scroll stencil decoration on top, single hidden drawer and four turned legs.

Date: ca. 1859

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103715

Accession Number: 2008.26.5

Stove top with four burners

Steel stove top with four electric coil burners.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103769

Accession Number: 2007.11.6

Stove Hood

Stainless steel stove exhaust hood with fluorescent light bulb.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103770

Accession Number: 2007.11.5AB

Base cabinet with double doors

Sea-foam green metal base cabinet with double doors at front, removable and adjustable interior shelf.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103771

Accession Number: 2007.11.7AB

Hanging cabinet with double doors

Sea-foam green metal hanging cabinet with double doors at front, removable and adjustable interior shelf, hanging cup rack unit, and bracket.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103772

Accession Number: 2007.11.8A-D

Countertop

Yellow Formica countertop with multi-colored boomerang design throughout.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103773

Accession Number: 2007.11.9

Corner cabinet with lazy Susan

Sea-foam green metal corner cabinet in two parts and three level lazy Susan shelf unit inside.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103774

Accession Number: 2007.11.10A-C

Under-sink cabinet with double doors

Sea-foam green metal under-sink cabinet with double doors and a separate floor unit.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103775

Accession Number: 2007.11.11AB

Sink

Metal under cabinet sink with drain stopper and gasket.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103776

Accession Number: 2007.11.12A-C

Hanging cabinet with double doors

Sea-foam green metal hanging cabinet with double doors, removable and adjustable shelf on interior and two brackets.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103777

Accession Number: 2007.11.13A-D

Clock-doorbell

Brown and tan metal and plastic rectangular clock and doorbell combination.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103778

Accession Number: 2007.11.14

Wallpaper fragments

No description

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103779

Accession Number: 2007.11.15A-C

Bag of Hardware

Bag of hardware

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103780

Accession Number: 2007.11.16

Kitchen window

Rectangular metal window with interior and exterior frame, storm windows and screens.

Date: 1955

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103781

Accession Number: 2007.11.17A-I

Storm door

Aluminum storm door

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103782

Accession Number: 2007.11.18AB

Kitchen door and frame

Wooden door with wooden frame

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103783

Accession Number: 2007.11.19AB

Linoleum flooring

Fragment of linoleum on plywood, design consists of squares of tan quatrefoils on white background.

Date: ca. 1955

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103784

Accession Number: 2007.11.20

Wallpaper Sample Book

Wallpaper sample book titled "No. 1-2 / S. Z. Goldberg / Boston, Mass. / 1919." Book is covered with heavy black paper textured to imitate leather and printed gold lettering on front. Book contains more than sixty sidewall and ceiling wallpapers, many with coordinating border papers.

Date: 1919

Maker: S.Z. Goldberg (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 103785

Accession Number: 1993.873

Sarah Elizabeth Bellows

Hollow cut silhouette set on black silk of a young girl, mounted in an oval brass frame with foliate and beaded borders.

Date: 1826

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 103786

Accession Number: 1913.10

Silhouette

Hollow cut bust length silhouette portrait set over black silk of a young woman facing left wearing a hair comb and wide lace collar, mounted in a gilded molded wood frame.

Date: ca. 1830

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103787

Accession Number: 1914.12

Miniature portrait of a young boy and girl

Miniature painting on ivory of a boy and girl child holding hands, set in round tortoiseshell snuff box cover with a inlaid gold and bone decoration.

Date: 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: ivory (tooth component), tortoise shell, gold (metal), bone (material)

GUSN: 103788

Accession Number: 1918.222

Miniature portrait of man and child

Oil painting on cardboard of a man sitting in an upholstered armchair and embracing a young girl with a blue dress.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103789

Accession Number: 1920.198

Cut paper picture

Silhouette from white paper and set on a black card of a bird perched on a stump and framed by tree limbs.

Date: 1768-1814

Maker: Cox, Susanna Hickling (Artist)

GUSN: 103790

Accession Number: 1921.63

Cut paper picture

Silhouette cut from white paper and set on a cream paper of a peacock and squirrel perched in a tree.

Date: 1768-1814

Maker: Cox, Susanna Hickling (Artist)

GUSN: 103791

Accession Number: 1921.64

Wax Relief Portrait

White wax relief portrait of a man set behind glass in a square hinged red leather covered case with red velvet lining and two metal eye and hook fasteners.

Date: 1841

Maker: Hughes, Robert Ball (Sculptor)

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103792

Accession Number: 1921.290

Silhouette

Hollow cut silhouette set over black silk of a man facing left, folded over collar and ink details, mounted in a black wood frame with oval opening.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103793

Accession Number: 1925.621

Silhouette

Painted bust length silhouette on white paper of a woman facing left with a high white lace collar, mounted in a painted black frame.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103794

Accession Number: 1922.146

Silhouette

Hollow cut silhouette set over a black ground of a young boy facing left, mounted in a painted black molded wood frame.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103795

Accession Number: 1922.147

Silhouette

Hollow cut bust length silhouette set over a black ground of a man facing right with cut curlicues at bottom of portrait. Mounted in a brass spandrel frame with foliate and bead borders.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: Attributed to Howard, Everet (Artist)

Material: glass (material), brass (alloy)

GUSN: 103796

Accession Number: 1922.149

Silhouette

Hollow cut silhouette bust length portrait set over black silk of a woman facing left wearing a bonnet, mounted in a black molded paper frame with scalloped edge and oval opening.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103797

Accession Number: 1922.150

Silhouette

This hollow cut, double cut (shoulder area cut separately from head) silhouette portrait of a man facing left is set over a black ground. The details for hair and waistcoat were drawn in with ink. It is mounted in an oval brass spandrel frame with reed and bead borders.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: Possibly Chamberlain, William (Artist)

Material: glass (material), brass (alloy), paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 103798

Accession Number: 1922.151

Silhouette portrait of Sybil Moseley Bingham

Hollow cut silhouette of a woman facing left. Curled tendrils of hair and frilled collar have been inked in. Mounted in a brass spandrel frame with foliate and bead borders and rosette decoration.

Date: 1819

Maker: Doyle, Margaret Byron, d. 1830 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), glass (material)

GUSN: 103799

Accession Number: 1924.496

Portrait Medallion of Benjamin Franklin

Round cast terracotta medallion with a relief portrait of Benjamin Franklin wearing a raccoon skin hat, set in a round wooden frame.

Date: 1777-1779

Maker: Nini, Jean Baptiste (Sculptor)

GUSN: 103800

Accession Number: 1924.769

Silhouette

Hollow cut bust length silhouette portrait set over black ground of a man facing left with high white collar and shirt, pencil drawn details for hair, mounted in a gilded wood frame.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: Possibly Chamberlain, William (Artist)

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103801

Accession Number: 1925.652

Silhouette

Hollow cut silhouette set on black ground of a man facing left, mounted in an oval brass spandrel frame with foliate and reed borders.

Date: 1803-1810

Maker: King, William (Artist)

Material: glass (material), brass (alloy)

GUSN: 103802

Accession Number: 1925.619

Silhouette

Hollow cut silhouette set over black silk, mounted in an octagonal black painted wood frame.

Date: 1810-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103803

Accession Number: 1925.620

Silhouette

Painted bust length silhouette of a woman facing left, mounted in a brass spandrel frame with foliate and bead borders and verre eglomise matt with four rosettes at corners and oval opening.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), brass (alloy)

GUSN: 103804

Accession Number: 1925.622

Pair of Silhouettes

A pair of hollow cut silhouettes set on black textile of a woman facing right and a man facing left, both mounted behind painted glass with gold borders and sprigs of foliate decoration, gilt wood frame with twisted rope border applied to the cove.

Date: ca. 1820

Maker: Possibly Warner, Orson C. (Artist)

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103805

Accession Number: 1925.623

Pair of Silhouettes

Pair of hollow cut bust length silhouette portraits set over black cloth of a woman facing right and a man facing left, mounted in a brass spandrel frame with foliate and bead borders.

Date: 1803-1810

Maker: King, William (Artist)

Material: glass (material), brass (alloy)

GUSN: 103806

Accession Number: 1925.624

Silhouette

Hollow cut bust length silhouette portrait set over black ground of a woman facing right wearing a lace collar, india ink details for hair, mounted in a painted green wood frame with verre eglomise mat with octagonal opening and double curved bustline.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: Attributed to Letton, Ralph (Artist)

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103807

Accession Number: 1925.625

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