Historic New England

Swift

Well-turned and finished; circular sawn pine base, groved for cages; upright, maple.

Date: ca. 1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), maple (wood), beech (wood), oak (wood)

GUSN: 221297

Accession Number: 1926.427

Umbrella Swift

Maple swift with clamp-type base; elm screw stop; wire used at tops and bottoms of arms.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood), elm (wood)

GUSN: 221299

Accession Number: 1927.716

Embroidery Frame

Adjustable cherry embroidery frame on floor stand with walnut feet.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood), black cherry (wood)

GUSN: 221317

Accession Number: 1928.247

Netting Shuttle

Appears user-made; crude, rocket-shaped shuttle.

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood)

GUSN: 221322

Accession Number: 1929.1842

Embroidery Frame

Walnut, four piece, joined frame; 45 holes across one side and 49 holes on the perpendicular side.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 221326

Accession Number: 1930.41

Winder

European beech winder; top-spool; bottom, base to screw to table top. Half of pair.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: beech (wood), oak (wood), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 221328

Accession Number: 1930.653

Weaving Frame

Walnut weaving frame "for making table mats."

Date: ca. 1875

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 221330

Accession Number: 1930.1060

Weaving Frame

Lap-jointed walnut weaving frame; wire pins, "for weaving table mats."

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 221331

Accession Number: 1930.1061

Niddy Noddy

Turned, light colored walnut niddy noddy yarn winder; chip carved decoration.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 221335

Accession Number: 1930.1325

Tape Loom

Handmade, wooden tape loom; heart scratched in bottom; eighteen prongs.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: yellow birch (wood)

GUSN: 221338

Accession Number: 1930.1326

Hand Card

Maple hand card for carding wool;

Date: ca. 1850

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood)

GUSN: 221340

Accession Number: 1930.1350AB

Tape Loom

Tape loom with fifteen holes; made from riven oak.

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 221342

Accession Number: 1930.1650

Tape Loom

Riven board; twenty holes.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: eastern white pine (wood)

GUSN: 221345

Accession Number: 1930.1651

Lap Loom

Pine tape loom; painted red, white and blue; twenty-three holes; two nailed on braces.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), paint (coating)

GUSN: 221346

Accession Number: 1931.295

Temple

Maple temple; one of two (1931.598 is missing).

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood)

GUSN: 221347

Accession Number: 1931.599

Bat Head

Maple spinning wheel batten; "often called the palm in older wheels."

Date: 1750-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood)

GUSN: 221348

Accession Number: 1932.31

Shuttle

Maple shuttle.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood)

GUSN: 221350

Accession Number: 1933.959

Netting Shuttle

Crudely made wooden shuttle

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood), beech (wood), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221351

Accession Number: 1933.960

Netting Shuttle

Oak, arrow-shaped shuttle.

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 221352

Accession Number: 1933.961

Netting Shuttle

Oak, arrow-shaped shuttle.

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 221353

Accession Number: 1933.962

Netting Shuttle

Wooden rocket-shaped shuttle.

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 221354

Accession Number: 1933.963

Clock Reel

Table and legs, boxed works

Date: 1750-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood)

GUSN: 221357

Accession Number: 1993.1754

Netting Shuttle

Long, narrow, hickory shuttle.

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood)

GUSN: 221361

Accession Number: 1933.2035

Netting Shuttle

Wooden shuttle.

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cedar (wood)

GUSN: 221363

Accession Number: 1933.2036

Looking Glass

Wall mirror; two pieces of glass; carved and gilded inner edge of molding; gilt fruit and flowers at sides; English walnut frame; pine back.

Date: 1740-1760

Maker: unknown

Material: English walnut (wood), spruce (wood), glass by composition or origin

GUSN: 245882

Accession Number: 1942.1218

Dining Table

Queen Anne dining table with square top. Reversed cyma curve skirt. Mahogany top and legs, maple gates, and white pine blocks. Two leaf table has its original hinges.

Date: 1760-1785

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), maple (wood), eastern white pine (wood)

GUSN: 245888

Accession Number: 1933.6042

Cream pitcher

Silver footed cream pitcher; English.

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 245894

Accession Number: 1993.647

Chest on Chest

Chippendale chest on chest. Eleven drawers with stamped brass escutcheons. Molded pediment and ogee apron on base.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), brass (alloy)

GUSN: 245895

Accession Number: 1958.201

Needlework picture

Framed picture of crewel embroidery depicting flowering trees on a mounded hill with birds and butterfiles.

Date: ca. 1760

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 245897

Accession Number: 1963.309

Cloth fragment

Fragment of rose, floral brocade.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 245898

Accession Number: 1928.57

Card Game

Card game in wrapper package entitled "Characteristics"; "An Original Game by a Lady"; made up of and played with cards.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), printed matter production stages

GUSN: 245899

Accession Number: 1935.664

Quilt Fragment, pieced top

Quilt top fragment; square; cotton; pieced in patchwork pattern; printed fabrics; raw edges.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printed textile materials, hand sewing, geometric patterns

GUSN: 245900

Accession Number: 1917.1374

Souvenir

Souvenir panel; rectangular, jacquard; woven silk; depicts Columbus on a ship sighting America and his crew praising him; black on white.

Date: ca. 1892

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), jacquard

GUSN: 245902

Accession Number: 1921.157

Oriental rug; rectangular; polychromatic; central step-stided octagonal with floral designs on white ground in center on blue ground; in field of large paisley leaves; spandrels in corners with flowers and peacocks on cream ground; three band border with central band of running flowers on cream grou...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), knotted pile

GUSN: 245903

Accession Number: 1942.1429

Tall Case Clock

Tall case clock with an ogee pedement, glass pane on the bonnet side, an arched front window, and case door. There is a scribed circle on the base.

Date: 18th century

Maker: Jackson, Thomas (Clockmaker)

Material: cherry (wood), pine (wood), stain (coating), glass (material)

GUSN: 245986

Accession Number: 1976.243

Portrait of Colonel Thomas Dawes (1731-1809)

Portrait of Thomas Dawes, seated in a gilt chair with red velvet upholstery. Shown from the waist, wearing a black collared coat with white shirt and wearing a gray wig. He is holding a red and gilt book "Architecture by Palladio." Behind subject is red drapery flanked by a classical column, blue sk...

Date: ca. 1806

Maker: Stuart, Gilbert (American painter, 1755-1828) (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint), panel painting (image-making), gilding, painting (image-making)

GUSN: 246010

Accession Number: 2004.28

Temperance Genre Painting, "The Demon Liquor"

Small unframed oil painting; depicts tavern scene with eleven men and the devil peeking out from behind a door.

Date: 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 246012

Accession Number: 1996.106

Tea Cup and Saucer

Tea cup without handle and saucer.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 246014

Accession Number: 1914.483

Wallpaper Sample Book

Wallpaper sample book "Guild Distinctive Salon Wallpapers, Exclusive Creations by Robert Griffin"

Date: 1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 246015

Accession Number: 2002.23

Toy Rocket Radio

Toy Rocket radio (2010.17.28.1A) in original box (!B). Red and black-colored germanium diode radio molded in the shape of a rocket ship. The radio has a silver metal tip at the end of the rocket cone, and a black suction cup attached to the opposite end of the rocket. Red and white electrical wires ...

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: unknown

Material: plastic (organic material), steel (alloy), wire, rubber (material), diodes

GUSN: 246036

Accession Number: 2010.17.28.1AB

Instructions

Instruction sheet that came with the Rocket A-1 radio (2010.17.28.1A-B).

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), printing ink

GUSN: 246037

Accession Number: 2010.17.28.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Black and white pin dot and strapwork design in quatrefoil pattern with leafy center. Block printed on dark blue ground.

Date: 1760-1770

Maker: unknown

Material: laid paper, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 246045

Accession Number: 1977.585.2AB

Wallpapered board

Wallpapered board with fragments of a black and white pin dot and strapwork design in quatrefoil pattern with leafy center. Block printed on dark blue ground. Nail in corner of board.

Date: 1760-1770

Maker: unknown

Material: laid paper, wallpapers, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 246046

Accession Number: 1977.585.1

Wallpaper Sample Book

Wallpaper sample book, titled "Book No. 4 / Season 1912 / Lappin's Latest Leaders / Grass Cloths / Independent Ceilings/ Jaspes. Burlaps / Varnish Tile Papers / 30 Inch Ingrains / Imported Oat Meals / Crepes & Silk Fibres / I. Lappin Wall Paper Co / 114-116-118 Staniford Street Boston, Mass." Book i...

Date: 1912

Maker: I. Lappin Co.

Material: paper (fiber product), string (fiber product), ceiling papers, textile materials

GUSN: 246074

Accession Number: 1979.1

Rushlight Holder

Rushlight made of wrought iron. Tri-leg with penny foot. Heart-shaped counter balance with twist-work stem.

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought iron (iron alloy)

GUSN: 246078

Accession Number: 2000.1878

Square, Carpenter's

Carpenter's square; wooden; L-shaped; two pieces of wood; dovetailed; pegged together; circular hole at one end.

Date: 18th century

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), dovetail joints

GUSN: 246079

Accession Number: 2004.29.1

Needlework Kit

Needlework kit; cylindrical roll-up style; overed with brown leather; long wide brown ribbon tie closure; brow, beige, red worm pattern velvet pincushion ends; pins; lined with red silk plaid; leather dividers for thread; silk pocket; two cream-colored wool needle pages with needles; hole for thimbl...

Date: 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: leather, silk (textile), velvet (fabric weave), wool (textile)

GUSN: 246081

Accession Number: 1934.1342

Floor Cloth Sampler Backing

Original floor cloth backing to a framed sampler (1973.132A) by Mary Woodward dated 1805 or 1806.

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 246089

Accession Number: 1973.132B

Valance

Part of a drapery set constructed of gold-yellow weighted silk with applied silk damask; floral border around outer edges; purple back; damask tape; three ovals joined to form triple puff.

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), damask, machine sewing (technique)

GUSN: 246090

Accession Number: 1978.95.7

Drapery Panel

Part of a drapery set constructed of gold-yellow weighted silk with applied silk damask; floral border around outer edges; back made of purple silk; inter-lining of white cotton flannel; edged with tassels; 7 inch wide band of cotton silesia acrosss top on gold side.

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), cotton (textile), tape (materials), fringe, damask

GUSN: 246091

Accession Number: 1978.95.12

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