A woven basket with attached lid and two handles. Front has two rings and a peg to keep the basket closed. Most likely from the Southern United States.

Basket with a round top, square bottom, and bent-wood strap handles. Tightly woven sides and fairly open bottom (for ventilation).

Urn shaped twin handled basket. Part of a paper shipping label on the bottom.

Woven straw plate with a blue, red and brown geometric design and Biblical verse "Lo the Winter is Past - The Rain is Over and Gone - Flowers Appear on the Earth".

Basket with blue splint decoration.

Handled basket with lid with blue and yellow decorations.

Drying basket with two handles.

Basket with wide band splint. Rectangular with cover.

Tall bulbous basket with cover.

Black basket with a carved, bent wood handle

The top band is splint and the twisted strip that wraps around top support are painted blue. Bentwood handle.

Square bottom, round top with stenciled dotted lines in red and blue. Native American.

Round basket with handle.

Basket with openings on two short ends for handles.

Square woven basket.

Small basket with square bottom and round top.

Basket with bent wood handles. Impressed into handle: "BROWN"

Small rectangular basket with yellow and green decoration.

Circular woven basket with attached bent handles. Heavy splint.

Tall square splint basket with steam bent handles.

Potato stencil basket.

Basket of splint with woven lid.

Glass bottle wrapped in two handled basket.

Small 8-page Sunday School tract.

A bentwood bass drum. The drum is a painted a dark red and features a large eagle carrying a banner in its beak that says "Pembroke Brass Band". There is a shield or coat of arms on its chest with red and white stripes surrounded by a gold floral design. In one talon it carries a branch and in the other arrows. Inside the drum it says "Made and Sold by Calvin Edwards, Gorham". The heads were once stretched animal hide but as these were cracked it was replaced by canvas. This drum was used in the Pembroke Brass Band in Pembroke, Maine.

Large woven baby bed. Large splint basket, painted yellow. Sits on wooden frame with turned legs. 1 1/2" wide warp woven with 1/4" wide splint - ash or oak.

Bath brick used for cleaning. Brick could be scraped to form a scrubbing powder.

One iron bear. Marks: A circle with No.5 in center and "[Kenw]ood N.Y." on inside edge of circle; on outside edge of circle: "S NEWHOUSE." First designed and manufactured by Sewell Newhouse (1806-1888). Newhouse became a member of the Oneida Community about 1848 and continued to make animal traps there. It became a profitable industry of the religious sect and continued after Newhouse's death in 1888.

Four turned maple posts, a shaped headboard and foot board with side rails drilled for ropes.

Red paint on scrolled headboard, turned blanket rail, and cannon ball finials. Rails round, and drilled for rope.

Bed with scrolled pine headboard, turned maple posts with flat round finials. Round, pegged rails.

Roped bed. Grain-painted, black and red. Rectangular head and footboards between turned posts.

Sheraton style painted bed with pine head and footboards, maple posts and square, drilled rope rails.

Pine heart-shaped headboard with arched sides. Maple legs chamfered on 4 sides. Square, frilled, maple rope rails. Original red paint on rails. New red paint on legs and headboard.

Low post bed in original red paint. Molded edges on headboard and on side and foot rails. Incising on simply turned posts.

Wooden bed key for tightening ropes on a roped bed.

A bed warmer with a sheet iron pan, a brass cover, and a wrought iron handle.

Rectangular block of gray soapstone. The ends of an iron bail handle are inserted into holes on each side of the stone.

Rectangular block of gray soapstone with shallow holes drilled on each side of the stone that once had a bail handle insert into them.

Bed warmer made of soapstone block with a metal handle.

Two-pronged rope bed tightener with ash handle.

Round, bentwood box with hinged top and a round opening covered with wire screen. It has as a brass hook to secure the lid. This small box might have been to transport a queen, transport part of a colony of bees, or as a small starter hive or "nuc" (short for nucleus colony).

Tin funnel-shaped smoker on leather bellows.

Bee smoker made of tin and leather.

Dome shaped beehive basket with hewn stick or handle and rows of straw that are secured with wire.

Bell with cast steel handle and cast iron clapper, the end of which is cross shaped.

Rolled sheet iron bell with cast knocker and turned wood handle.

Bell with handle. Handle is lathe turned and tapers from a large rounded end to a more narrow form at the connection to metal bell. It also has turned decorative circles around handle and the handle is capped with a small circular bronze piece on the top. Bronze base is cylindrical by the handle and widens. "8" incised in the top of the handle out to a circle with a decorative edge. Base is attached with a piece of bronze encircling the handle. The iron ringer attached to iron hanger.

Turtle-back bellows with brass tip. Back is green with free-hand, black decorations and gold, orange and bronze stenciled fruit and leaves.

Bellows. Smoke-decorated and yellow painted bellows with free-hand leaf and pear decoration in black, red, green and gold.

Painted green bellows with freehand design of a gold, black and red basket of flowers, etc. Brass tip. Sheraton.

Sheraton style bellow with brass tacks and brass tip. Painted green with orange and gold stencil designs and free-hand black decorations.

Simple one-shelf water or bucket bench with scrub top and red stained legs (each formed of one board) and front and back apron.

Sheraton fancy style bench/blanket box. Long bench with short turned legs and a seat that lifts in two sections over two blanket boxes. Scrolled arms and a large turned pillow back, all supported by upright spindles, painted black and decorated with polychrome stencils and stripe work. Front panels are grain painted to simulate oak.

Small 24-page Sunday School tract.

Cellarette. Covered box with brass handles. Grained and decorated. Interior divided into 12 sections. 4 wooden casters mounted on 2 wooden strips attached to base. 4 bottles inside. Gilt grape leaf decorations on 2 of the bottles. Bottles are blown with arched shoulders, flaring lips and pontil scars. Name and date painted in interior. "I S Jr" branded on bottom of case. Box fitted for large and small bottles and glasses. Top decorated with smoke work. Sides and front are grain painted red with ochre grained, cut-cornered panels. Interior of cover is putty-painted in green and natural.

Tin bilge pump. Vertical cylinder of lapped tin. Top flares outwards with a wired and rolled lip. Just below top is a cylindrical pipe/spout joined perpendicular to the body of the cylinder. Plunger handle and leather washers are missing.

Bilge pump. Cylindrical vertical tube open at the bottom (1997.10.1a). A second tapered tube is attached to the bottom at a 45 degree angle. A support bar joins the two tubes near the top. A strap handle with wood fill is soldered to the top of the vertical tube. There is a wooden turned plunger with a shaped handle (1991.10.1b). A small tin plate is nailed to the bottom. Lamp wicking nailed around the base of the plunger.

Bill sent to John McKay (MacKay) from the New-York Central Railroad Company for freight charges for corn.

Clear glass, mold-blown, birdcage feeder. Cylindrical shape with ribs extending from center of base to neck. Bulge above cylindrical part includes a large hole for feeding; open neck. Top lip is rough, sanded pontil mark on bottom.

Clear glass, mold-blown birdcage feeder. Cylindrical shape with ribs extending from center of base to neck; bulge above cylindrical part includes a large hole for feeding; open neck. Top lip is rough, sanded pontil mark on bottom.

Birdcage feeder. Clear glass, mold blown. Body is cylindrical and ribbed which widens at center and narrows to applied twisted finial. Fountain has circular hole on side, the bottom lip of the circular opening has been chipped off. Pontil mark broken off.

Birdcage feeder. Clear glass, mold blown. Body is cylindrical and ribbed which widens at center and narrows to applied twisted finial. Fountain has circular hole on side. Hole in the back middle of the feeder. Broken pontil on bottom.

Free-blown glass bird fountain. Body is fluted, around the rim is rigaree topped with a glass bulb. The feeder extends away from the body with a rectangular opening.

Free blown cobalt blue glass birdcage fountain. Clear glass riagree joins the body with a clear glass bulb top. The feeder extends out from the body, its edge is also cobalt with the base of the feeder clear glass.

Free blown glass birdcage fountain. The body has shallow flutes and the top has a twisted glass detail, topped with a cobalt blue bulb. The feeder extends away from the body in a rectangular shape.

Bulbous free blown glass birdcage fountain. The glass is speckled with a decorative knob on its top. There is a spout connected to the body. Pontil mark on the bottom.

Bird-cage fountain. Colorless, blown-molded, with globular body, flattened on one side. Waterer has a projecting rectangular cup, tapering neck with flat button base for chicken finial and rounded sides with alternate fillet-rib and broad plain panel. Plain base with rough pontil mark.

Colorless, blown-molded birdcage fountain with globular body, flattened on one side having a projecting rectangular cup. Tapering neck with flat button base for chicken finial and rounded sides with alternate fillet-rib and broad plain panel. Plain base with rough pontil mark.

One blacksmith's apron once owned by John Thomas "JT" Caley, blacksmith for the town of Brighton, New York. Apron is made of thick black leather and has two gromets at the top and leather loops where ties would have gone. In very good condition for its age. Some cracking along the outer edges and some tears in the front "split" of the apron with one piece having come loose but leather is still malleable and supple.

Blacksmith box owned by John Thomas (JT) Caley. Box is made of wood with a cast iron handle that curves over the box. Cast iron strips are screwed onto the edges for stability. There is a larger compartment at the bottom and a small compartment divided into four areas at the top.

One blacksmith's hammer with wooden handle and cast iron head.

Woven blanket. Red and blue check on natural ground.

Blanket chest. Painted vermillion with black/gilt striping. Gilt floral stenciling with dome top and lined with wallpaper, on top: stenciled "F.C.G."

Blanket chest with lift top and tapered legs. Brown with an oval pattern in yellow ochre with green plumes. Yellow stenciled, inlay-like border. Hepplewhite.

Six board blanket chest with lift lid and four turned legs with ball feet. Painted red.

Blanket chest with hinged lift top, cut out feet and a base molding.

Painted blanket chest with hinged and molded cover. Small covered till inside and molded base. Blue-gray paint.

Blanket chest with lift-top box on bracket feet with three small molded edge drawers. Painted red.

Hand pieced and hand quilted. "Each full star in this red, green, and yellow quilt is made up of 128 diamond-shaped pieces. Fifteen full stars, 11 half-stars and 2 quarter stars add up to an impressive total of 2,688 diamonds. A close examination reveals faint pencil marks made to guide the stitching, done in a running vine pattern." - Elizabeth Davis, "A Stitch in Time: Quilts from the Genesee Country Village & Museum", 2005.

A bobbin holder ("lazy kate") consisting of one bobbin rack with three horizontal wrought iron rods, two of which hold the original maple bobbins. The footed frame is secured with wooden pegs.

Shoemaker's boot last. Whittled hickory boot form with movable foot on a pegged joint & handle carved from the "leg".

Boot scraper shaped like two dolphins, nose to nose. Bar between tails forms scraper. Three screw holes in flat base.

Boot jack in the shape of a cricket.

Bootjack. The chamfered frame, screwed to the jack, is movable so as to act as a hand rest for balance. Jack has sole-shaped opening and swings on two pivot points within the frame

Wooden bootjack with a forked shape and a block of wood attached perpendicularly above the divergent part of the fork.

Rectangular bottle with round beaded screw top.

Clear glass bottle.

Blown, double flask shaped like a bellows with applied rosettes, probably a glass blowers' "whimsey".

A straight-sided brown bottle made of vitreous stoneware.

Small chestnut-shape green bottle, cracked.

Aqua glass bottle, mold-blown. Top and bottom of the body is ribbed horizontally. The middle is smooth glass. Lip is plain, pontil broken.

Clar glass bottle, mold blown. Top and bottom of the body is ribbed horizontally. The middle is smooth glass, on one side is a raised circle, on the other side is a raised square. Lip is plain but lopsided, pontil scar.

Spirits bottle. Olive-amber with lateral sides and a pontil scar.

Olive-amber bottle with pontil scar on bottom.

Olive-amber colored bottle.

A green wine bottle with a narrow neck and a bulbous body.

Dark green bottle with small indentation on side, long narrow neck and rounded shoulder.

Green "waldglas" wine bottle with cylindrical body, sloped shoulders and a short neck. Blown glass with pontil mark on bottom and a deep punt. A secondary lip is applied to the opening at the the neck.

Green demi-john in 2 handled basket.