$326
Sewing Box and Shaker Sewing Items, Mount Lebanon, New York Family of Shakers, late 19th century, possibly Shaker round lapped-seam box with pine top and bottom and maple sides and swing handle, lined with ivory silk, with four blue silk ribbons suspending a pincushion and strawberry emery in matching fabric, a felt needle holder, and needle wax, accompanied by a loose Shaker poplarware pincushion and needle case, the pincushion with a printed paper label "North Family of Shakers Mount Lebanon Col. Co. N.Y."; also a heart-shaped needle wax, a leather thumb mitten, small leather needle case, and a small glass perfume bottle, (small losses on joinery edges), ht. to top of box 3 3/4, dia. 8 1/4 in. Note: A note and tintype picture of two little girls accompany the sewing case. The note is inscribed "This belonged to my Great-Grandmother Mary Irene Demarche Oakes. She was brought up by the Shakers-left there by her father soon after the Civil War."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-08-14
