Brush Hook
One completely hand made brush hook with wrought iron blade, blade attachment hardware and wooden handle. Blade or hook is "S" shaped
Bucket
Bucket with lid. 14 staves with circular wooden base. 3 wooden hoops, lapped and secured with wrought iron nails. Lid made of 2 semi-circular pieces of wood dowelled together. Edge is lapped, and secured to the top with nails.
Bucket
Covered bucket with handle. Original dark brown paint with strapped hoops and rim on lid.
Bucket
Red bucket over an earlier ochre with three metal withes secured with three nails each. 2-3/4" wooden brace supports two-piece cover. Wire bail handle with wooden grip.
Bucket
Bucket with sharply tapered sides and swinging bentwood handle. Made of wood and leather.
Bundt Pan
Ceramic Bundt pan. Swirl form with yellow and green slip; some cracking. 20th century wire "make-do" repair.
Burgoyne Surrounded Quilt
Different sized brown squares on a white ground. Burgoyne Surrounded pattern.
Burnside Carbine Rifle
.54 caliber Burnside rifle. A breech-loading carbine that saw widespread use during the American Civil War. The carbine was designed and patented by Ambrose Burnside. The carbine used a special brass cartridge which was also invented by Burnside. This cartridge contained a bullet and powder, but no primer. It was the 3rd most popular carbine used in the war, behind Sharps and Spencer.
Burnside Flat Base Bullet, .54 Caliber
For use in a Burnside carbine was a breech-loading carbine rifle.
Butter Churn
Butter churn with red barrel and six-bent-wood hoops. Plunger with 2 perpendicular boards at its base that fits through hole in cover.
Butter Churn
Red, triangular-shaped churn, with a flat top. Cover is a square wooden plank with rectangular hole. Beater has a long carved handle with 6 wooden slats attached to base and swings on a dowel.
Butter Dish
Butter Dish. 3-part dish: base, pierced shelf, and cover. Wide gold band.
Butter Dish
Silver butter dish with a rabbit finial and repoussé decoration. Pierced plate and scroll decoration applied on the rim of dish.
Butter Mold
Cup-shaped form with handled plunger and print face decorated with a cross surrounded by four carved leaves.
Butter Mold
One wooden butter mold in three pieces. The side pieces hook together by dovetailed corners at opposite corners and brass hooks on the other corners. Inside, the patterned wooden block sits in the grooves of the side pieces. The block has four recessed leaf or floral style patterns.
Butter Paddle
A butter paddle with a handle shaped like a stylized bird's head, featuring a pair of eyes cut into the sides of the head.
Butter Plate
Bread and butter plate. Mulberry ware. Ironstone with a transfer printed pattern called "CYPRUS" in a reddish brown.
Butter Tub
Butter tub. Wide band of white outlined by smaller bands of blue. Dome lid with knob top and blue floral decoration within white band.
Cabbage Cutter
Cabbage cutter with tombstone-shaped board with hole for hanging. Double steel blade secured to body by means of 1" wooden strips.
Cabinetmaker's Design Book
A cabinet maker’s notebook/sketchbook is quarter bound in fine brown calfskin with covers of cream, brown, and blue, marbled paper. Original binding. On the front endpaper written in light pencil it says “Chase Richardson, Sandy Hill, NY, 1832”. The inside pages are filled with drawings of various furniture rendered in both pencil and ink. Furniture is drawn with all measurements notated and most have titles stating the name of the item and the style. In some drawings different options are shown such as different styles of furniture legs and some drawings have prices listed. There are pages filled with designs of patterns that could be carved into the furniture. In the back of the notebook there are more than a dozen extremely detailed recipes for various finishes that have been attributed to the cabinet makers who created the recipe. The recipes are in different hands, possibly the creators of the recipe wrote it in his notebook for him. Various dates throughout are listed from 1830-1833.
Caddy
Caddy with straight sides and small wire handle on cover which fits within collar.
Cake Mold
Two parts: (1) Round form with center tube to create a hollow center baked good; two small tin loops on upper sides of form to correspond with those on lid. (2) Round cover with concentric decorative circles on top, oval tin handle, two small tin loops on sides of lid.
Cake Mold
One redware Turk's-Cap cake or pudding mold with black or dark brown manganese spots on the inside and outside of the mold. The mold has a fluted shape with a scalloped edge. It is unmarked, but George Hamell attributes it to Western New York in that it "very closely conforms to those made by Alvin Wilcox, West Bloomfield, NY. Very similar in proportions and identical in the number and modeling of the flutes."
Cake Plate
A white cake plate with a shaped edge and embossed designs at the handle-like points. It is decorated with blue clay, sprigged-on flowers on the marley. In the Chelsea style.
Cake Plate
A white cake plate with colorless molded decoration of swags and flowers on the marley, and blue clay sprigged-on grape vines accented with pink luster highlights. Classified as Chelsea type.
Cake Plate
Cake plate with shaped edge and wide fluted design and decorated with blue clay, sprigged-on urns with flowers and fleur-de-lis. Chelsea type.
Cake Plate
A white cake plate with a shaped edge, featuring embossed designs at the handle-like points and blue clay sprigged-on flowers decorating the marley. Classified as Chelsea type.
Cake Plate
Cake plate. Round, rimmed cake plate over a turned stem on a convex base. Quatrefoil design in center of plate and base. Two circles of 1/4" roping for decoration underneath the plate. Pressed glass.
Cake Stand
Scalloped rim cake stand on plate and foot. Pattern is "Florence" by W. T. Copeland. Scroll design inspired by the illumination of an Italian Renaissance manuscript. "Charlotte" shape.
Cake Stand
Scalloped rim cake stand on plate and foot. Pattern is "Florence" by W. T. Copeland. Scroll design inspired by the illumination of an Italian Renaissance manuscript. "Charlotte" shape.
Camphene Lamp
Camphene oil lamp. Cylindrical reservoir rests on a small saucer which is supported on a round stem above a larger saucer with a round handle. On the reservoir is: one burner, one spout for filling, a chain with wick pick, and a chain minus the cap.
Camphene Lamp
Camphene lamp with conical font with two burners on a saucer base with strap handle. Burners are in a threaded brass cap.
Camphene Lamp
Camphene lamp. Wire hanger attached to narrow tin strap back piece with a tin body and brass threads in spout to accommodate the brass camphene burner with its wick adjuster. Chain minus its cap hangs from the shaft of the wick adjuster.
Candle Box
A candle box made of pine with a beveled cover. The surface has been refinished.
Candle Box
Cylindrical-shaped candle box with double hinged lid, two straps for hanging and a hinged latch.
Candle Lamp
Pendant candle holder. Socket on one end, bent on the other for hanging .
Candle Lamp
A hanging candle lamp designed for use with a rush or candle, featuring a spring device that allows the height to be adjusted.
Candle Lantern
Metal frame enclosing a glass shade and containing one candle cup with swing wire bail handle. Fluted round smoke bell at top.
Candle Lantern
A triangular candle lantern with two glazed sides and one sheet iron side with sliding door, the top is pointed and has a ring handle.
Candle Lantern
Cylindrical candle lantern with pierced designs and a hinged door with clasp. Painted silver.
Candle Lantern
Half-round candle lantern. Flat front accommodates a pane of glass and the rounded back has a hinged door with pierced design.
Candle Lantern
Cylindrical candle lantern with pierced tin designs, conical top, and hinged door.
Candle Lantern
Cylindrical candle lantern with a hinged door and conical-shaped top with a hanging ring. Pierced with slot and dot abstract patterns.
Candle Mold
A single candle mold made of tin, designed for producing one large candle measuring 22 inches in length.
Candle Sconce
Single candle cup on edged shelf with molded reflector back and round fluted top.
Candleholder
One pan type candleholder having a circular base with a rolled rim. The circular handle has two depressed lines parallel to the edge and is attached inside the dish. The circular candle holder itself has a flared rim. Painted a charcoal color.
Candlesnuffer
Candlesnuffer. Stamped tin snuffers with three legs formed from the tin of the body. The two parts are joined with a brass rivet.
Candlestand
Cherry candlestand. Urn shaped pedestal with spider legs of odd tight design. Chisel carved designs on upper section. Top almost square.
Candlestand
Candlestand. Top has rounded corners and serpentine form. Tripod urn-design pedestal with arched legs and snake feet.
Candlestand
Hepplewhite candlestand, painted/grained to simulate oak in brown/yellow ochre. Top has rounded corners and a large over-hang. A lip is under the drawer.
Candlestick
Pair of candle sticks. Petal socket and extension shaft in form of a dolphin resting on square, stepped and double base.
Candlestick
Candlestick with incised bands on stem. Also an incised ring band. Saucer base with finger handle.
Candlestick
Round, convex base with a second round, convex circle of metal in the center; the hollow cylindrical shaft, connected to the center of the base by a square bolt and rivet/nail, has a vertical hole cut in the side for the push-up handle (missing); shaft has a wide lip that angles in; a short metal tab, part of the lip, is bent down to form a hanging handle
Candlestick
Candlestick with hangar and a push-up lever. Convex base, handle on rim.
Candlestick
Candlestick with a base shaped like a hog scraper - a push-up, and a small hanger on the overhanging rim.
Candlestick
Candlestick with round base with turned vasi-form stems. Hold threes candles and has a mirror on the back reflector
Candlestick
Candlestick with turned stem that screws into the convex base with a lip.
Candlestick
Candlestick with a convex base with candle push-up and small hanger off the rim.
Candlestick
Brass candlestick with square base tapering the into shaft. Medial Knop with two discs above and below and flaring candle cup with small drip catcher.
Candlestick with Snuffer
Candlestick with snuffer. Deep-saucer candlestick with handle and push up. A small bracket for hanging the snuffer.
Candlesticks
Adam-style candlesticks. Round candle cup over a square fluted stem, and square tiered base. Five bands of beading around the base.
Canister
Tin box with flat sides and back. Front has a convex center and beveled edges that angle in towards the center. Top is two-tiered, higher section is flat, lower section mirrors the division of the front, except the hinged center is concave with a white porcelain handle screwed to the tin and the sides are also concave and not angled. Whole outer surface is rosewood painted with abstract gold floral patterns.