$1,541
Small Shaker Striped Wooden Pail, probably Rufus Crossman or Elder Daniel Boler, Mount Lebanon, New York c. 1875, made to commemorate a terrible fire at Mount Lebanon, New York in 1875, these decorative pails were made from the cedar posts of a fence that survived the fire, sumac, and other contrasting light and dark woods, with pine bottom, iron hoops, bail, and coffin-shaped bail plates, and hardwood handle, ht. to top of rim 4 7/8, dia. 7 1/4 in. Literature: For similar examples see Shaker Woodenware Vol. II, by Sprigg & Johnson, 1992, pp. 132-3.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-11-08