 | Suffolk Door latch
This hand-forged iron "Suffolk" style latch with circular "ball" cusps has a plain grasp with a central rib. The thumber or thumblift has a flat pad and is curved at the end. Each cusp is punched with three holes for the wrought nails with which it was attached to a door. |
 | Suffolk Door Latch
This "bean-end" style "Suffolk" door latch is not particularly well-made. It has a straight thumb lift bar that passes through the handle shank as is usual in later Suffolk latch examples. The handle is embellished with a single horizontal incised line slightly below the mid-line. It is pierced for... |
 | Tin Trunk Painted by Sarah Greenleaf Upson, Marion,...
Large domed top tin trunk with hasp and heavy wire ring in cover. Two large white half circles on front with yellow brush strokes around them. Green stylized leaves with orange flowers and buds with black accent lines. Ends have white border, green leaves, orange buds, black accent lines. Yellow... |
 | Fire Bucket
This painted leather fire bucket's base color is yellow ochre, with the shield of Massachusetts painted on the front. An inscription reads "John P. Thorndike Boylston Street, No 2, 1824, Boston." Also inscribed at a later date "Presented by James F. Thorndike". The rim at both top and bottom are... |
 | Fire Bucket
One of a pair of leather fire buckets with attached handles. This one is in perfect condition with original dark olive brown paint. It has no ornamental decoration, name or date on it. Its mate, # 12.8.52 had its paint removed. |
 | Fire Bucket
This painted leather fire bucket for domestic use has a leather handle standing some 5 1/2" above the top rim. The handle is sewn directly into the rim and is further secured with two brass rivets at each juncture. The bucket is painted dark green with a black rim, but the paint is in a somewhat... |
 | Painted Fireboard - Trompe l'Oeil Fireplace and Urn
Painted fireboard made of two wooden boards joined horizontally. Central motif is a tromp l'oeil effect of a fireplace with a blue two-handled urn holding blue foliage. Edges of fireplace and urn are scribed as well as painted. Central motif bordered on top and sides by painted delft-type tiles... |
 | Painted Fireboard - Landscape
Painted fireboard with pastoral landscape. Large thatched-roof house with towering cliffs in the background. Small pond in foreground with cattle, man on horseback trying to drive them. Another man on road going toward house. Scene could be in Scottish Highlands. May have been copied from an... |
 | Paper-Covered Fireboard - View of Boston
This is the central section of a fireboard. Woodblock print, "View of Boston" from South Boston printed in five colors, with a rococo border printed in black around entire print. "View of Boston" is printed in block letters at base of picture. |
 | Painted Fireboard - Tree Motifs
A thin two-board fireboard painted with surround of pseudo-tile border of daubed tree-in-circle motifs and center as a three-dimensional fireplace with vase of leaves. Tones are muted browns, green and cream. Back top bears stencilled initials, "L.H.M." Two battens have been supplemented by two... |
 | Painted Fireboard - Landscape
A plain two-piece fireboard with two vertical battens and burn mark on reverse. Front is painted with a landscape, the major part comprising a horizon line of low hills against which stand three depths of trees and grass painted in a sponge-like manner. Three large trees dominate. At center bottom... |
 | Wallpaper-Covered Fireboard - Classical Scene
Three rough pine boards held in position by two pine battens with chamfered edges. Battens held in place with cut nails. Covered in two layers of wallpaper. Bottom layer appears to have all-over stylized floral pattern in blue. Top layer is scenic in several colors and several shades of each color. |
 | Decoupage Fireboard - Animals, Buildings, Crowns, Swords
Back of fireboard shows two white pine boards 20 5/8" in width and 11 5/8" in length, about 1" thick with two vertical battens, one white (?) pine the other whitewood attached with screws. Edges of each are chamfered, unpainted and smoothed first with a jerk plane and then across grain with a veneer... |
 | Painted Fireboard - Floral Vase
Fireboard made of two wide boards joined horizontally by two battens attached to back. Current battens are replacements. Round hole for stove pipe cut into left side; remnants of paint on cut surfaces. Fireboard painted with blue/green background. Urn-like vase sits on grassy landscape. Tulips,...
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