Two antique embroidery kits with contents. 1st item: Wood box with sliding lid, lithographed paper label: "The Little Embroiderer/La Petite Brodeuse". Contains turned wooden embroidery frame and assorted sewing implements, including three Bristol board bookmark patterns. Box 2" H x 8"W x 7"D. 2nd item: Paper covered wood box labeled "Mercerie" with hinged top, opens […]

Basketweave sewing box with red silk lining and contents, 11 silver sewing implements, most with floral engraved decoration, all marked Sterling (most also with mark for Webster), including: strawberry pincushion with sterling top, scissors, thimble, tape measure, needle, glove darner, 2 shuttles, and 3 ribbon threaders. Box 2-1/4" H x 6" W x 4" D. […]

Two tier Shaker sewing box with pincushion top lifting to reveal storage underneath over a drawer. Turned wood finials and ivory thread holes. Signed on base YA / 50. 6-1/2"H x 6-1/2" W x 4-1/2" D. Circa 1880. Together with three turned wooden clamps, three turned wood thread holders, a wooden hoop and an unknown […]

A collection of sewing related items, most silver. Includes a leather cased and velvet lined etui, containing a needlecase in the form of a Queen, a pair of scissors with decorative handles and gilded blades (repairs to handles), thimble, and blue-tinted mother of pearl hook (possibly not original). Box is worn with broken hinge. No […]

Chinese Export lacquer sewing or work box, rectangular with gilt geometric design, the hinged lid opening to reveal a fitted interior with laquered and ivory dividers and a drawer section beneath. 19th century. 4 3/4" H x 13 3/8" W x 9 3/4" D. Provenance: Estate of Salli LaGrone, Franklin, Tennessee. Condition: Wear to exterior, […]

Trinket box with ivory veneers over pine, slightly domed top on four ball feet, incised and stained floral decoration, the center panel decorated with a seashell. Illegible inscription and date on bottom. Probably Russian, Kholomogory or Archangel, 19th century. 2"H x 5" W x 4" D. Provenance: Estate of Salli LaGrone, Franklin, Tennessee. Condition: Missing […]

Approximately 44 pieces of assorted bone and ivory. Includes: 1 bone handle corkscrew, 4 ivory napkin rings, 2 pierced ivory needlecases (1 is a Stanhope viewer showing images of the Palais du Trocadero Exposition Universalle), 1 needlecase with gilt band, 1 sewing clamp, 1 parasol handle in the figure of a hand (repaired finger), 1 […]

A green velvet covered serpentine shaped sewing box with silver mounts and handle and tufted fuscia silk lining, containing 22 ivory sewing implements and a red fabric pincushion. Sewing notions include 5 threaders, 3 knitting needles, various hooks and bobbins, 1 shuttle, 1 ivory thimble, 1 thread dispenser, 1 stained and carved thread or thimble […]

1st item: Oversized buttocks basket, woven handle with swag design, signed Abraham Lincoln Logsdon (Hopkinsville, KY). 21"H x 23"W x 18"D. 2nd item: Buttocks basket with woven handle, signed, 11"H x 12"W x 10"D. 3rd item: Miniature buttocks basket with woven handle and dyed blue splits to handle and rim. Dated 1984. 4 1/2" H […]

4 TN baskets attr. Mildred Youngblood & Nelda Merrit. Three Tennessee split oak baskets, both attributed to Mildred Youngblood (Cannon County, born about 1928). 1st item: a buttocks basket with woven rim, 12"H. 2nd item: a rectangular basket with woven band, 10"H. Mid 20th century. 3rd item: Wall basket, 10" H x 11" W x […]