Historic New England

Needlework Pattern

Needlework pattern, pencil on paper. Monogram design.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284660

Accession Number: 1979.86

Needlework Pattern

Needlework pattern, pencil on paper. Monogram design.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284661

Accession Number: 1979.87

Needlework Pattern

Needlework pattern, pencil on paper. Monogram design.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284662

Accession Number: 1979.88

Inkstand

Inkstand in shape of a side wheel steamer. Patented by Thomas S. Hudson in 1871. With original patent [B] and drawing [C] for inkstand.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 284664

Accession Number: 1972.2A-C

Three fragments of wallpaper from Kingston, Massachusetts. Pattern of circular figures at even intervals along narrow, vertical black stripes. The stripes are over-printed with horizontal white dashes. The circular figures, possibly stylized flowers or rosettes, are dark pink over-printed with b...

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 284668

Accession Number: 2001.281.414A-C

Wallpaper

Two wallpaper fragments from the Captain Trask House in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Quatrefoil and rosette pattern block-printed in dark olive and green on light blue ground. Evidence of earlier and later layers of paper present.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 284670

Accession Number: 2001.281.413AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments with Masonic symbol from Manchester, Massachusetts. Masonic Square and Compasses symbol with G in center framed by Gothic Revival style architectural elements. Roller-printed in three grays, two blues, white and metallic gold on light blue ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: Robert Graves Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 284672

Accession Number: 2001.281.415A-J

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Diamond diaper pattern with stylized floral figure. Roller-printed in cream, tan and two browns on polished tan ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284675

Accession Number: 2001.281.416

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments from Marion, Massachusetts. Large scale floral pattern block-printed in blue with purple stenciling on pink and blue Irisé ground. Partial sheets of handmade paper.

Date: 1835-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: wove paper, block printing (relief printing process), stenciling

GUSN: 284676

Accession Number: 2001.281.417A-C

Pair of Earrings

This pair of matching earrings are part of a set with brooch 1969.2395.1. The earrings are cast in the shape of Asian-style rectangular fans engraved with birds. The earrings attach with silver s-shaped ear wires.

Date: ca. 1875

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal), glass (material)

GUSN: 284677

Accession Number: 1969.2395.2AB

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug with maroon transfer-printed scene of a small child pulling a wagon full of toys.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 284679

Accession Number: 1988.590

Earring

This single earring was once part of a larger set of jewelry, of which the necklace 1969.3010.1 survives. The earring consists of a smaller five-point star made of faceted black glass and set in a black enameled bezel. It attaches to the ear with a metal s-curved ear wire.

Date: ca. 1875

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), metal

GUSN: 284680

Accession Number: 1969.3010.2A

Box

This box contains a brooch, 2006.44.31.1, but it was most likely not the original container for the brooch. The box is composed of a base and hinged lid, covered in purple velvet. The interior base is covered in black velvet, formed with slits and depressions to hold a piece of jewelry. The lid inte...

Date: ca. 1890

Maker: unknown

Material: velvet (fabric weave), satin

GUSN: 284684

Accession Number: 2006.44.31.2

Necklace

This necklace is composed of collet-set moonstones hung along a gold chain, each stone suspended from an 'o' ring to form a "fringe" of stones. From the center of the chain is suspended a five-stone pendant, each stone connected to the next with 'o' rings. The necklace closes with a spring ring clas...

Date: ca. 1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284685

Accession Number: 2006.44.131.1

Brooch

This bar brooch is composed of seven collet-set oval moonstones in a row, mounted on two parallel gold bars at the reverse. The moonstones are slightly graduated in size, with the largest at the center, decreasing in size to either side.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284686

Accession Number: 2006.44.131.2

Brooch

This brooch is composed of two off-set horizontal gold bars, each with ball-shaped ends. The brooch is set at the center with a carved moonstone shamrock set with a round amethyst, ending in a gold stem. While cataloged as part of a set, it is stylistically different from the rest of 2006.44.131 and...

Date: c. 1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284687

Accession Number: 2006.44.131.3

Pair of Earrings

Each earring in this pair is composed of a collet-set moonstone at top, from which is suspended a second, identical moonstone, with a narrow gold bar separating the two stones. The earrings attach with gold ear wires.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284688

Accession Number: 2006.44.131.4AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the Luce House in Marion, Massachusetts. Diamond shaped coffer pattern with blue centers and bead molding. Diamonds are given a three dimensional appearance with the use of light and shadow. Roller-printed in tan, brown, blue and gray on white ground.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284690

Accession Number: 2001.281.418

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the upstairs bedroom of the Royall House in Medford, Massachusetts. Persian style floral stripe pattern. Stylized flowering vines form oval an pattern overlaid with predominately red stripes of small flowers and leaves. Roller-printed in red, green, blue, ochre and black o...

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 284691

Accession Number: 2001.281.419

Wallpaper Border

Two fragments of wallpaper border still attached to sidewall paper from Medford, Massachusetts. Floral Arts and Crafts style ceiling border cut out around the pattern's lower edge. Roller-printed in green, white, and red with silver and gold sparkles on blue ground applied to oatmeal paper. Sidew...

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 284692

Accession Number: 2001.281.420AB

Bandbox

Oval bandbox with lid. Bandbox (A) and lid (B) covered in blockprinted paper with green, gray and yellow lilacs and roses on a pale gray ground. Box has been reinforced along bottom edge with gray fabric. Lid has paper reinforcment along top edge with blue, gray and gold motifs. Part of lid edge rei...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: Baker, Sarah

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284693

Accession Number: 1937.955AB

Wallpaper

Large fragment of wallpaper from either Millis or Medway, Massachusetts. Quatrefoil medallion and flower pattern. Quatrefoil figures made of scrolling leaf and flower figures printed in brown interlocks with undulating floral figures and medallion centers printed in orange. Block-printed on a peac...

Date: 1835-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 284694

Accession Number: 2001.281.421

Wallpaper

Wallpaper sample with foliate pattern from Middleton, Massachusetts. Overall pattern of stylized leaves and branches surrounded by pindots. Roller-printed in green, three browns and black on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284697

Accession Number: 2001.281.422

Wallpaper

Two fragments of unused Gothic Revival style striped wallpaper from Middleton, Massachusetts. Large central figure with multiple gothic arches, trellises, trefoils, quatrefoils and ivy vine swag flanked on either side by wide stripes with similar motifs. Additional pindot with pinstripe and pindot...

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284698

Accession Number: 2001.281.423AB

Fireplace Fender

Fireplace fender.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284492

Accession Number: 1980.192

Fireplace Tongs

Fireplace tongs.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284494

Accession Number: 1980.194

Fireplace Poker

Fireplace poker with finial.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284495

Accession Number: 1980.195

Fireplace Poker

Fireplace poker with a square finial.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284496

Accession Number: 1980.196

Wallpaper

Scenery figure wallpaper fragment from Hanover, Massachusetts. A pastoral landscape depicting a bridge over a river between a church and a mill is framed by Asian inspired border. The landscape alternates with a large oval figure with central medallion and symmetrical, stylized architectural figur...

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284513

Accession Number: 2001.281.400

Wallpaper

Small fragment of Gothic Revival style wallpaper part of a multilayered sample of papers from Hanson, Massachusetts. Earliest identified layer of approximately six layers is a small fragment of a Gothic style pattern roller-printed in black and white on green, ungrounded paper. Fragment attached t...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284527

Accession Number: 2001.281.401.1

Mug

Earthenware mug. Lightly ribbed body with four sections, flared rim, and molded, spurred loop handle. Dark copper luster lines around base, rim, inside of rim, and down handle. Two foliate motifs in copper luster on body.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, lusterware

GUSN: 284528

Accession Number: 1937.1384

Wallpaper

Imprint of Renaissance Revival style wallpaper from Hanson, Massachusetts. Probable second layer of approximately six. Scroll and strapwork pattern roller-printed in red and white on gray ground. Pattern is imprinted on the back of 2001.281.401.3A-C.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284529

Accession Number: 2001.281.401.2A-C

Wallpaper

Striped wallpaper fragments from Hanson, Massachusetts. Probable third layer of approximately six. Alternating stripes of flowers, horizontal stripes with dots and scrolling vines. Roller-printed in green, red and white on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284530

Accession Number: 2001.281.401.3A-C

Wallpaper Border

Wallpaper border fragment from Hanson, Massachusetts. Border for third layer of wallpaper (2001.281.401.3A-C) and the fourth paper of approximately six. Trellis pattern in salmon roller-printed over a rainbow ground. Back of paper also covered with rainbow ground.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284531

Accession Number: 2001.281.401.4

Window Shade Paper

Large oval cut from a paper window shade and applied, probably to a fire screen, as a decorative element. Probable fourth paper of approximately six from one location in Hanson, Massachusetts. Paper block-printed with large rosebush with orange, white and blue roses growing from a blue pot on a l...

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 284532

Accession Number: 2001.281.401.5AB

Wallpaper

Diaper and sprig pattern wallpaper fragments from Hanson, Massachusetts. Probable fifth paper of approximately six from the same location. Roller-printed in violet, white, two greens and two browns on ungrounded paper. Applied over wallpaper 2001.281.401.3A-C, border 2001.281.401.4 and decorative...

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284533

Accession Number: 2001.281.401.6A-C

Window Shade Paper

Paper window shade applied, probably to a fire screen, as a decorative element. Uppermost layer and probably sixth paper of approximately six layers from one location in Hanson, Massachusetts. Landscape scene framed on sides and bottom with large scale scrollwork. Block-printed in white, green, bla...

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 284552

Accession Number: 2001.281.401.7A-D

Wallpaper Tracing

Tracing of striped wallpaper with scroll. Notes indicating colors and repeat. Tracing was found in a folder with multiple layers of wallpaper (see entries for 2001.281.401) but is not a tracing of any of those papers.

Date: 1940-1970

Maker: unknown

Material: tracing paper

GUSN: 284567

Accession Number: 2001.281.402

Wallpaper

Embossed wallpaper fragment from Harwich, Massachusetts. English or French paper with pattern of dragons and strapwork. Dragons and a devil head hold bead or floral garlands in their mouths. Brown ground paper is stenciled in green, black and four browns, roller-printed in gold and varnished.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings, stenciling

GUSN: 284572

Accession Number: 2001.281.403

Box

This rectangular paper box is covered in black leather. It has a hinged lid and is lined with padded white satin. The box closes with a small hook and ring clasp on the front. It is the original box for 1927.217.1

Date: 1822-23

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), leather, satin

GUSN: 284574

Accession Number: 1927.217.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Hatchville, Massachusetts. Diaper and rosette pattern wallpaper with attached ceiling border (see 2001.281.404.2) . Two layered diaper pattern: lower layer is formed by "marblized" masonry and the upper layer features three-dimensional masonry squares with rosette figures a...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284575

Accession Number: 2001.281.404.1

Wallpaper Border

Wallpaper border fragment from Hatchville, Massachusetts. Border attached to diaper pattern wallpaper fragment (2001.281.404.1). A thick textured or braided green cord and smooth, narrow orange cord twist around each other over a black background with orange edges. Roller-printed in three greens,...

Date: 18601870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284576

Accession Number: 2001.281.404.2

Grass Cloth

Small sample of grass cloth wall covering from Haverhill, Massachusetts. Printed with floral pattern in gray-green.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: grass (plant material), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284579

Accession Number: 2001.281.405

Wallpaper

Small sample of Nylon wallpaper from Haverhill, Massachusetts. Screen-printed with fern branches in bronze and flocked fern and leafy branches in cream. Reflective (resembles liquid mica), light cream ground. "Hand Print by Fine" [text cut off] in selvedge.

Date: 1950-1957

Maker: unknown

Material: nylon, paper (fiber product), flocking, screen printing

GUSN: 284581

Accession Number: 2001.281.406

Box

This fitted case is covered with black leather. It contains the earrings 1929.566.1AB.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), leather

GUSN: 284582

Accession Number: 1929.566.2

Wallpaper

Small sample of Nylon wallpaper from Haverhill, Massachusetts. Flocked patten of stylized flowers and curling feathers in light cream on cream ground. Paper is reflective and embossed with small dot pattern.

Date: 1950-1957

Maker: unknown

Material: nylon, paper (fiber product), flocking, embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 284583

Accession Number: 2001.281.407

Box

Red velvet covered box with cream silk and velvet lining. Original box for cameo set 1930.177, 1930.178, 1930.179ab.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284584

Accession Number: 1930.1795

Vest button

Each button in this set of twelve is composed of a micromosaic view of an ancient Roman architectural site, in this case it is possibly a view of the Roman Forum. Each micromosaic is set in black glass and mounted in gold with an applied rope border. Each button attaches with a hook on the reverse. ...

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: micromosaics, gold (metal)

GUSN: 284585

Accession Number: 1930.160.1

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Lattice-work pattern. Printed in green, gray, and black on a white ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Seller)

GUSN: 284586

Accession Number: 2000.185

Vest button

Each button in this set of twelve is composed of a micromosaic view of an ancient Roman architectural site, in this case possibly a view of the Temple of the Vestal Virgins. Each micromosaic is set in black glass and mounted in gold with an applied rope border. Each button attaches with a hook on th...

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 284587

Accession Number: 1930.160.2

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