Demi-lune fire or coal guard made of single wrought iron strap shaped into a curve.
Date: 1890-1950
Maker: unknown
Material: wrought iron (iron alloy)
GUSN: 308457
Accession Number: 1958.485
Slant-top desk with four drawers and ogee apron. Drawers with elaborately stamped brass escutcheons that appear to be original. Interior with 8 pigeon holes with ogee shaped top and 8 drawers.
Date: 1750-1800
Material: wood (plant material), brass (alloy)
GUSN: 308458
Accession Number: 1958.216
Bannister back side chair with woven rush seat, turned stiles, legs and stretchers.
Date: 19th century
Material: wood (plant material), rush (material)
GUSN: 308459
Accession Number: 1958.220
Prayer rug with pentagonal field with point to Mecca. Serrated leaf and wine glass pattern, and rosette border. Primary colors are yellow, brown and red.
Material: wool (hair)
GUSN: 308460
Accession Number: 1958.437
One of a pair of brass candlesticks, each cast in two pieces. Square base and beaded post. Interior of socket with plunger to raise and lower candle.
Date: 1750-1850
Material: brass (alloy)
GUSN: 308462
Accession Number: 1958.438.1
GUSN: 308463
Accession Number: 1958.438.2
One of a pair of Empire style side chairs with scrolled crest rails, baluster splats, curved legs and needlepoint seat covers.
Date: 1820-1860
Material: wood (plant material), wool (hair), canvas
GUSN: 308464
Accession Number: 1958.439.1
GUSN: 308465
Accession Number: 1958.439.2
Nine-spindle writing Windsor armchair, painted brown. Legs, stiles, and spindles bamboo turned. Seat incised around edge.
Date: 1725-1860
Material: paint (coating)
GUSN: 308466
Accession Number: 1958.440
No description
GUSN: 308491
Accession Number: 1991.22.2AB
Thistle design
Material: glass (material)
GUSN: 308492
Accession Number: 1927.2003
Cast iron iron with turned wood handle and cast iron loop for hanging.
Date: ca. 1854
Material: cast iron, wood (plant material)
GUSN: 308493
Accession Number: 1958.271
Slant-top desk with four drawers with elaborately stamped brass escutcheons. Inside are six drawers and six pigeon holes flanked by Doric columns.
Date: 1750-1820
GUSN: 308494
Accession Number: 1958.221
Oval braided rag rug in hues of brown, pink, red, purple, blue, gray and green.
Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile)
GUSN: 308495
Accession Number: 1958.441
Oval braided rag rug in tones of black, brown, gray, pink, orange and red.
GUSN: 308496
Accession Number: 1958.442
Oval braided rag rug in tones of brown, green, purple, pink and blue.
GUSN: 308497
Accession Number: 1958.443
Ladder back rocking chair with four slats, painted black with yellow slip on edges. Turned arms, stiles and rails, rush seat.
Date: 1800-1860
Material: wood (plant material), rush (material), paint (coating)
GUSN: 308498
Accession Number: 1958.444
Bow front chest of drawers with curving apron and splayed feet. Four drawers with oval brass escutcheons. Inlay around top, keyholes, and edges of drawers.
Date: 1790-1830
Material: wood (plant material), brass (alloy), inlay (process)
GUSN: 308499
Accession Number: 1958.445
Bed with scrolled head and foot boards with cannonball finials. Painted grain with yellow/gold slip on edges, stencil design of fruit and basket. Original rope bottom removed and fitted for mattress.
Material: wood (plant material), stenciling, paint (coating)
GUSN: 308500
Accession Number: 1958.446
Glass decanter with a stopper. Fluted body. Etched label.
Material: glass (material), etching (corroding)
GUSN: 307782
Accession Number: 1935.1324AB
Glass decanter with a stopper. Square body. Daisy and button pattern.
Material: glass (material), pressed glass
GUSN: 307813
Accession Number: 1993.402.1AB
GUSN: 307832
Accession Number: 1993.402.2AB
Glass decanter with a stopper. Square body. Large flutes on the body.
GUSN: 307835
Accession Number: 1918.1324.5AB
Pair of circular brass curtain tie backs beaded on inner edge enclosing black transfer-printed circular plaque of a cherub under a tree sitting before an easel.
Date: 1790-1900
Material: brass (alloy), earthenware
GUSN: 307868
Accession Number: 1958.424AB
Pair of molded colorless glass circular curtain tie backs with iron and tin posts. Face of tieback ornamented with molded milk glass daisy. Solarized.
Material: pressed glass, iron alloy, tin alloy
GUSN: 307883
Accession Number: 1958.425AB
Pair of pressed milk glass curtain tie backs in the form of 6-petalled daisies. Screwed onto brass and iron posts.
Date: 1830-1950
Material: pressed glass, brass (alloy), iron alloy
GUSN: 307885
Accession Number: 1958.426AB
Glass footed sauce dish. Pressed glass centennial design featuring the liberty bell.
Date: 1876
GUSN: 307887
Accession Number: 1993.431.1
GUSN: 307888
Accession Number: 1993.431.2
GUSN: 307889
Accession Number: 1993.431.3
GUSN: 307890
Accession Number: 1993.431.4
GUSN: 307891
Accession Number: 1993.431.5
Pair of hollow stamped brass curtain tie backs. Disc-shaped with floral stamped design.
GUSN: 307897
Accession Number: 1958.427AB
Pair of stamped brass curtain tie backs. Circular in shape with daisy in center. Wavy edge with daisies.
GUSN: 307901
Accession Number: 1958.428AB
Black-and-white photograph of the Hilton House (where lodgers at Nickels-Sortwell took meals) burning. It burned ca. 1900. Photograph in modern black painted wood frame.
Date: 1900
Material: photographic paper, wood (plant material), paint (coating), plate glass
GUSN: 307909
Accession Number: 1958.429
Two black-and-white photographs of Nickels-Sortwell house taken when the house was used as an inn. Also shown is the building on the opposite side of route 218 (the Hilton House) where guests at NIckels-Sortwell took their meals. Modern black painted frame.
Date: 1892-1900
Material: photographic paper, plate glass, wood (plant material), paint (coating)
GUSN: 307911
Accession Number: 1958.430
Black and white photograph with black painted wood frame. Typed legend reads: Nickels-Sortwell House, Wiscasset, Maine. This picture taken in 1873 was given by Joseph Erskine who was born in the house in 1874. His father Sanuel [sic] Erskine owed [sic] the house at that time and used it as an Inn...
Date: 1873
GUSN: 307912
Accession Number: 1958.431
Glass goblet. Faceted body.
GUSN: 308023
Accession Number: 1941.142
Glass footed compote. Alternating diamond patterns and hollow circular patterns molded into a swirl design.
GUSN: 308028
Accession Number: 1941.532
Framed color engraving, Washington Crossing the Delaware. Plain oak frame. Painted by E. Leutze. Engraved by Paul Girardet. Published by Goupil & Co. New York.
Date: 1853
Material: paper (fiber product)
GUSN: 308046
Accession Number: 2015.23.1
Glass tumbler. Diamond pattern bans. Flutes around the base.
GUSN: 308084
Accession Number: 1933.6650.2
GUSN: 308085
Accession Number: 1933.6650.3
GUSN: 308086
Accession Number: 1933.6650.4
GUSN: 308087
Accession Number: 1933.6650.5
GUSN: 308088
Accession Number: 1933.6650.6
Glass decanter and stopper. Square body. Large flutes on the body.
GUSN: 308089
Accession Number: 1918.1324.6AB
Glass decanter. Fluting around shoulder and base. Faceted rings around the neck. Stopper.
GUSN: 308092
Accession Number: 1938.288AB
Glass footed compote. Horn of plenty pattern. Faceted finial.
GUSN: 308105
Accession Number: 1941.531AB
Blue glass toilet bottle and stopper with bulbous body tapering to neck and flaring at rim. Hand-painted gilt bands on neck and foliate design on body. Gilt foliate design on stopper with gilt band.
Material: glass (material), gilding
GUSN: 308114
Accession Number: 1939.22AB
Large redware jar with brown interior glaze. Ear-shaped handles on exterior, also glazed. Jar has been mended, several large cracks visible.
GUSN: 308115
Accession Number: 1973.425
Rectangular molded glass relish dish. Fluted underside of dish continues to scalloped rim.
GUSN: 308116
Accession Number: 1931.1881