| An important collection of over 380 lots featuring many exceptional Shaker furnishings previously purchased from the collection of the late Dr. Donald Sprowls of Ohio – a Benjamin Youngs Tall Clock, a classic Enfield, NH settee, a rare Watervliet Trustee’s Desk, a scarce community dining table with trestle base, a set of Enfield, NH cane seat side chairs, a rare Enfield child’s chair. Also featured are a pair of rare Mt. Lebanon side chairs with pewter tilters, sets of NH dining chairs, Cases of drawers, Cupboards & Cupboards over drawers, Sewing stands, Blanket chests, Work tables, Candlestands, Hanging cupboards, Tailoring and Work counters, Harvard childrens’ chairs and Elder’s rockers in bird’s-eye & tiger maple, and others, revolver stool with original plush cover, many wonderful accessories: seed boxes, baskets, oval boxes & “personal” boxes ( with provenance), painted pails, buckets, brushes and colorful dusters, woodenware of all types from kitchen to utility items, an outstanding collection of Shaker textiles including over 50 rugs, a collection of tinware, many bottles, hangers, dolls and miniature rooms. Important ephemera: an 1860 Henry Blinn manuscript/book, labels, postcards, letters and photographs. C. Helena Sarle collection with painted scenes of Canterbury, NH. |
