$1,200
Two-color Woven Wool and Cotton Coverlet, Harry Tyler, Butterville, Jefferson County, New York, 1845, two-piece double weave coverlet woven with strawberry red wool yarn and natural cotton with a central field of floral, star, and heart medallions, bordered on three sides with leafy trees and fences with two trademark spreadwing eagle and stars corner blocks with woven inscription "MARY. ANN SHUTLEFF/JEFFERSON CO. N.Y./1845," (wear, minor losses), approx. 88 x 83 in. Literature: This coverlet is pictured in Coverlets and the Spirit of America , Melinda Zongor (Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., Pennsylvania, 2002), pp. 112-13. Zongor writes: "The eagle trademark in Harry Tyler's later coverlets replace the earlier lions... They are done in several variations and with some turned sideways. It is said that his son Elman designed them, as he wanted something more American."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-27
