1st item: Cotton red and green floral applique quilt attributed to Rachel Roess of Pennsylvania. The center panel contains an intricately engineered four-leafed plant surrounded by four fylfots expressing good luck, constructed with double green, cheddar yellow, and turkey red fabrics on an embroidered ivory ground with tiny applique touches to the geese, birds, and […]
Lot 709: 3 Samplers incl. Salem, Massachusetts
1st item: Family Register sampler for the True family of E. Salisbury, Mass., possibly the work of Ploomy A. or Ruth Annette True, who are listed with respective 1844 and 1846 birth dates along with their parents John and Charlotte True and sibling Andrew C. True. Cross stitched names, dates, and strawberry border. Housed in […]
Lot 710: Southern Pieced Cotton Quilt, Seven Stars Pattern
Graphically strong pieced Southern quilt made of cotton cloth in Oxblood brown,dark blue, and orange solid colors in the “Seven Stars” pattern (in reference to the star cluster “The Seven Pleiades” in the constellation Taurus). Quilting is by the piece. Quilting knots are visible on back. Initials “B. S.” embroidered in a corner on back. […]
Lot 711: Southern Pieced Cotton Quilt c. 1890, Slashed Star Pattern
Southern pieced cotton quilt stitched in distinctive colors of oxblood brown, dark blue, and orange in the "Slashed Star" pattern, first published by Ladies Art Co. as a mail order pattern offered in 1889. Quilting is by the piece. Quilting knots visible on back. 72" x 94". Circa 1890. Note: Oxblood brown, dark blue, and […]
Lot 707: Framed English Needlework on Silk, Friendship
English Regency period needlework and watercolor on silk landscape depicting the allegory of friendship. A young female holding a floral garland stands beside a stone architectural plinth supporting two love birds, next to a seated young girl adorning a lamb with a floral garland; a willow tree and cottage are shown in the mid-ground with […]
Lot 708: 3 Samplers, incl. Connecticut, Pennsylvania
Three (3) samplers, most likely American, including Connecticut and Pennsylvania, all silk on linen. 1st item: Lydia G. Satterlee Connecticut needlework sampler containing 3 alphabets and numbers, her initials, heart motif, name, and birthdate of November 8, 1798, over pictorial motifs of a figure feeding ducks and a tall plant or tree and the initials […]
Lot 704: Early Jack Daniels TN and Georgia Whiskey Jugs, 2 items
Two (2) advertising stoneware whiskey jugs. 1st item: Jack Daniel's two-gallon jug with cream slip and cobalt stencil reading JACK DANIEL'S OLD TIME DISTILLERY LYNCHBURG, TENN, 11 3/8"H x 7" dia. Circa 1870-1875. 2nd item: Georgia whiskey jug with Albany and cream slip with cobalt stencil reading POTTS-THOMPSON LIQUOR CO. DISTILLERS ATLANTA, GA with "3" […]
Lot 705: Jack Daniels Gunter Pottery Whiskey Jug c. 1900
Circa 1900 Jack Daniels stoneware whiskey jug from Nashville Tennessee retailer W.T. and C.D. Gunter, with albany slip top and handle, the lower buff colored body stenciled in cobalt: W. T. & C. D. GUNTER, LIQUOR DEALERS Jack Daniel No. 7 Whiskey. 205 BROAD ST. NASHVILLE. – – TENNESSEE". 9 1/4" H x 5 1/2" […]
Lot 706: Four (4) Nashville Stoneware Pottery Whiskey Jugs
Four (4) Nashville, TN stoneware advertising whiskey jugs. 1st item: White glazed stoneware pottery jug with cobalt stamped inscription "Berry, Demoville & Co./Wholesale Druggists/Nashville, Tenn", with dried corn cob in spout. 12" H x approx. 7" dia. 2nd item: Stoneware pottery jug with dark brown to cream slip glazed with cobalt stencil "J. T. Doores […]
Lot 702: Large Enterprise Manufacturing Company Coffee Grinder
Enterprise Manufacturing Company countertop cast iron coffee grinder with the original red paint, Model #9, having a hopper with a gilt eagle finial and milk glass knob, body marked PAT. JULY 12, 98. 19 1/2" double pierced wheels reading ENTERPRISE-MFG-CO-PHILA-PA-U.S.A., and a square cast iron base with wood door having nailed construction. 30 1/2" H […]