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Maine Antique Digest, December 2016 11-C
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This butternut, tiger maple, maple, pine, and tin desk
on a tripod stand is considered rare. It was made at
the Enfield, Connecticut, community and sold for
$7500. The desk box is made with a hinged slant-lid
top with two small shallow drawers on the right side,
and the drawer bottoms are tin, in which was made
a scratched drawing of a Shaker brother in a broad-
brimmed hat and coattails with the initials “T.R.” for
the maker, Thomas Richmond of Enfield. A scratched
inscription on the interior of the other drawer reads,
“Tom Richmond Shakers Station, Enfield Conn. &
T.R.” A further inscription in pencil along the side
of the drawer is curious: “Edward J Lyman Dec 21,
1860, They shall get refreshments.”
This 24" high pine and maple trestle table
with a single-board top, 6'4" x 25", attached to
shaped and chamfered oak trestles with hand-
forged screws and pegged into maple supports,
circa 1840, brought $13,800 from the phones.
Its unusually small size may indicate use in the
ministry. Willis Henry photo.
The high quality of the tiger maple and bird’s-eye maple
used to make two rocking chairs at Mount Lebanon
around 1840 indicates that they were made for the elders
or eldresses in the community. Provenance provided in
the catalog indicates that Kippy Stroud had bought
them through a Willis Henry auction of the Doug Towle
collection. This time the chairs brought $4800 (est.
$8000/12,000). Willis Henry photo.
This tiger maple fruit press with a bold tiger maple,
oak, and cherry baseboard and turned supports
through mortised on a cherry base brought $1440.
It is shown on a round cherry worktable that did
not sell.
This birch and pine sister’s sewing desk with traces
of the original red and old refinish was a good buy
when it brought $10,800 (est. $15,000/25,000). Made
at Enfield, New Hampshire, community between
1840 and 1850, it has an upper gallery of six small
drawers, three short drawers on the front, and
three longer drawers on the side. A later full-length
drawer along the bottom of the case was fitted
with bone and wood knitting needles and crochet
hooks. The desk was accompanied by a 1927 letter
from Eldress Josephine Wilson of East Canterbury,
New Hampshire, referring to the desk as owned by
a Great Aunt Addie. The cherry and pine hanging
storage box (atop the sewing desk) was made at the
Harvard, Massachusetts, community and realized
$1200.
This 34" x 47¼" x 20½" pine work counter with traces of the original
finish beneath an overpainted red finish, a single-board top, and a
horizontal three-board back, circa 1840, sold for $2040.
This 11½" tall poplar and
pine medicine box in the
original dark red paint
with compartments for
bottles and a dovetailed
lower drawer with more
compartments is stenciled
“Infirmary Only / SF,”
indicating that it was
used by the South family
at the Mount Lebanon
community. It sold for
$1440.
Bidding on this large (5½" x 14¾"
x 10¾") maple and pine oval box
with four fingers opened at $1000
and marched to $8400. In excellent
condition with mellow yellow paint, it
had been part of the Flo and Howard
Fertig collection, and their son had held
on to it for a time. Willis Henry photo.
This 84" tall two-piece butternut andpoplar
trustee’s desk from Enfield, Connecticut,
made around 1850-60 has two doors on the
upper section opening to four shelves above
two short drawers over a long drawer. The
lower section has two writing slides and two
doors; the entire piece has old refinish and
some replacements of pulls and closures.
The desk sold online for $8400. Ex-Kippy
Stroud collection.