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303 results found. Records searched: 303

  1. 2022.15.1 - Table

    Small drop leaf table with two leaves and turned legs. Entire table is yellow birch. Top is attached to the base with pocket screws and has two leaves on the long sides with rule joints, attached with iron hinges. The mortises for the hinges on the leaves are longer than the hinge itself. The legs are turned and do not have a ring at the transition from square to round. Pegged mortise and tenon joints secure the skirts to the legs. The top is at...

    Record Type: Object

    Drop leaf table with turned legs
  2. 2022.2.1 - Bottle, Medicine

    North Family Shaker Anodyne bottle. The aqua glass bottle is rectangular in cross section with recessed panels on the narrow sides that read : "Shaker / Anodyne" on one and "Nth. Enfield / ~N.H.~" on the opposite. The bottle seems to be made on a post-bottom mold with a faint bottom seam from diagonal corners and a round post mark in the center. The seams runs up opposite corners of the bottle, over the shoulders and terminates just below the ...

    Record Type: Object

    Shaker Anodyne bottle
  3. 2022.4.1 - Chair

    Small child's chair with arms. The back posts have elongated finials (one longer than the other) with a scribe at the center, faint shoulders at the transition to the back post diameter, scribe marks above and below each of the three back slats. The tops of the back slats have very minimally graduated curves on the top edges, with a curved bevel on the upper forward edge. The top slat is pegged at each end to secure it in the back post mortises. ...

    Record Type: Object

    Child's chair after repair and finish restoration
  4. 2022.4.2 - Chair

    Enfield side chair. Elongated finials with medial scribe mark, slight shoulder at junction with top of post. Scribe marks at tip and bottom of slat mortises. Slats have uneven bevels on top edge, flatter than often seen on Enfield chairs. Top slat secured to post with two pegs, middle slat has a single peg. Posts and slats are birch, but the seat rails and stretchers are all ash. Seat rails feel like they are shaped for rush, but are covere...

    Record Type: Object

    Enfield side chair
  5. 2022.4.3 - Chair

    Enfield chair with replacement taped seat. Back posts have elongated finials with scribe at the widest point, and a shoulder at the junction with the post. Back posts have scribe marks at top and bottom of the back slat mortises, although some are faint. The three back slats have arched top edges with different radii. The top edge of the back slats is beveled on the front side. The posts have a single scribe mark that locates the seat rails ...

    Record Type: Object

    Enfield chair
  6. 2022.5.1 - Manuscript

    Bound manuscript. "Extracts adapted to the Societies at Canterbury & Enfield. From the Holy Orders of the Church. Written by Father Joseph To the Elders of the Church at New Lebanon And copied agreeable to Father Joseph's Word February 18th 1841." The document is hand-written in blue ink in a single hand. There is a title page, 88 pages of text, and a table of contents at the end. The book is sewn and bound in leather - the back cover is separa...

    Record Type: Object

    Bound manuscript - 1841 Holy Orders
  7. 2022.5.2 - Book

    Book of music owned by Flora Appleton. Hardcover bound book with lined pages. The covers are marbled. On the front cover is a label with "Flora Appleton / 1918" handwritten, and then traced over at least one time. The label is printed at the bottom with "S.W. Co., Boston, Mass." The book contains 73 pages of handwritten music and lyrics in pen and pencil. The music is written in standard notation. The beginning of the book is in one hand (...

    Record Type: Object

    Music book owned by Flora Appleton
  8. 2022.8.1 - Bucket, Sap

    North Family sap bucket. Bucket is painted yellow on the outside and red on the inside. The red is likely primer, but the interior paint is gone. The staves are pine with tongue and grooved edges. The top rim is nicely rounded on the inside edge. The chime (inside edge of the bottom of the staves) is nicely rounded as well. The head is 1 piece of pine, with no visible bevel on inside, and a shallow bevel on the outside edge. It has 4 dog ma...

    Record Type: Object

    Enfield North Family sap bucket with stamp
  9. 2022.8.2 - Box, Oval

    Oval box. Oval box body band and top rim are maple and are rather thick. The fingers point to the left on each. The top rim has one finger, the body of the box two. The fingers are secured with copper tacks, Top and bottom are pine and are secured with hardwood pegs that are square in cross-section. Modern lacquer finish has sealed the box shut.

    Record Type: Object

    Oval box
  10. 2022.9.1 - Table, Sewing

    Work table with single drawer and upper gallery. The table is primarily poplar with a pine top board with hardwood trim to create a tray top. The legs are poplar, square at the top to below the skirts where they are turned round with a ring turning at the transition. The legs do not taper to the ground. There are stretchers spanning the short sides of the table, but no scribe mark to locate the mortises in the legs. The stretchers have a flat spo...

    Record Type: Object

    Table with 4-drawer gallery and tray top
  11. 2022.9.2 - Basket

    Brown ash basket with carved handle. Square base of 5 x 5 wide splints. End splints divide into two staves at each end. One end of one middle splints also divides into two staves. 1/8" wide weavers. Rim is two pieces of thick splint, with splint spiral wrapping. Handle is hardwood, carved, and bent to shape. The handle has a large shelf that is captured by the inside rim splint. Below this notch the handle tapers inside the weavers to a p...

    Record Type: Object

    Basket with AA initials
  12. 2023.1.1 - Bottle, Medicine

    Brown's Shaker Fluid Extract of English Valerian bottle. Aqua glass. Each narrow side is embossed in a rectangular recess, one side reads "Shaker Fluid" and the opposite "Extract Valerian" The letters and recess are crisp and defined. There is no noticeable seam across the bottom, seams run up opposite edges, over the shoulder, up the neck and fade shortly before the rim. There are vents on the shoulders without the seams. The applied finish is...

    Record Type: Object

    Brown's Extract of English Valerian bottle
  13. 2023.10.1 - Chest, Blanket

    Large chest with four drawers. The lid of the chest has applied moldings on the front and sides, the hinges are replacements. There are two straps of old chair tape (one is broken) which restrict the lid's travel backward when open, secured to the lid and sides with brass tacks. There are four drawers below the lidded upper box, with the upper two half-width and the lower two the full width of the chest. The upper drawers each have a single ...

    Record Type: Object

    Large chest with four drawers
  14. 2023.11.1 - Bucket

    North Family fancy bucket with lid, striped wood, brass hoops, and John Bradford inscription. The staves, head, and lid are made of alternating hardwoods that provide contrasting color and grain pattern. The staves are tongue and grooved, and turned with a smooth curve to the chime (bottom, inside edge of the staves) and the upper, inside rim of the bucket. The lid is made of the same contrasting woods as the staves with a brass rim nailed to the...

    Record Type: Object

    North Family bucket with lid, brass hoops, and contrasting woods
  15. 2023.12.1 - Trunk

    Small trunk owned by Abigail Appleton. The top of the chest is pine and the remainder is a light-colored hardwood. The lid is 1-1/2" high, with dovetailed corners and a pine board nailed to the top. A small batten on the at the upper inside sides and front help seal and locate the lid when shut. The sides of body of the chest are dovetailed, and the bottom is inset and nailed through the sides. An iron lock is affixed the upper edge of the f...

    Record Type: Object

    Box with initials "AA" on bottom
  16. 2023.13.1 - Box, Oval

    Large, red oval box. The sides of the box are red oak and the top and bottom are pine. All the fasteners are iron nails. The hoops that forms the body of the box and the lid are rather thick, tapered at the ends, and fastened with three rows of clenched iron nails. The ends are cut straight. The top and bottom are white pine and are fastened to the hoops with iron nails. The outside of the box is painted red.

    Record Type: Object

    Large, red oval box
  17. 2023.14.1 - Case, Display

    Enfield seed box with metal latch. Box is all pine with dovetailed corner joints. The front and back boards are longer than the sides, allowing the bottom to set between them. The bottom is nailed through the bottom of the front and back boards and up into the bottom of the side boards. The top is a single board, attached with two leather hinges, which have broken. There is an iron latch on the upper edge of the front of the box, and a cast iron ...

    Record Type: Object

    Enfield seed box
  18. 2023.15.1 - Bed

    Bed. Headboard is made of several different hardwoods. The posts are square for most of their height, transitioning at top to round with a ring, and topped with a broad cove and round finial with a medial scribe. Below the level of the rails is another transition to round with a ring, and a short, bulging tapered leg. The head board is solid over the span of the square posts, with four turned spindles above ending at a top rail. The footboard is...

    Record Type: Object

    Headboard
  19. 2023.16.1 - Table

    Red table with breadboard top. Wood is birch, with poplar secondary drawer parts. Top is secured with pocket screws and has breadboard ends. Slender legs are square at top, turned round below the skirt with no ring at the transition, and taper to the ground. Skirts are attached to the legs with pegged mortice and tenon joinery. Flush, inset drawer has half-blind dovetails at the front with through dovetails at the back. Unusual taper of drawer f...

    Record Type: Object

    Small table, one drawer, breadboard top
  20. 2023.18.1 - Built-in, Shaker

    Built-in from the Great Stone Dwelling, 8 drawers over two cupboards. A mortice and tenoned pine frame contains the 8 drawers. The drawers, also pine, have lipped fronts with molded edges, half-blind dovetails at front and through dovetails at the back. Drawer bottoms are a single piece of pine. Below the drawers is a pine box, with two cupboards. The proper right cupboard is lined in tin, has a hole in the side where a lead pipe would ve...

    Record Type: Object

    Built-in from Great Stone Dwelling

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