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Birdcage Fountain
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.
Birdcage Fountain
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.
Birdcage Fountain
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.
Birdcage Fountain
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.
Blacksmith Apron
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
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.
Blanket
All wool blanket. Hand spun white, and commercial red wool. Bold red and white plaid. Woven into strips. Copied from an 1840 blanket in Nancy Bogdonoff's "Handwoven Textiles of Early New England".
Blanket
Blanket. Commercial warp, handspun weft, all natural color, all wool. Woven by GCM weavers.
Blanket
One reproduction Shaker diamond point wool blanket with a twill pattern in dark blue and white.
Blanket
Large indigo and white plaid blanket. Modification of early one in the book "Keep Me Warm One Night". Yarn spun by GCM spinners. Blanket woven by GCM weavers.
Blanket
2 ply handspun and dyed with indigo. The pattern is Goose-eye twill. Was worked on over a period of 2 years by the GCM weavers. "4 days to wind warp. 3 days to dress loom. 17 days to weave." - Louise Richens (GCV&M weaver).
Blanket Chest
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
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.
Blanket Chest
Six board blanket chest with lift lid and four turned legs with ball feet. Painted red.
Blanket Chest
Blanket chest grained, painted black and red. Lift top with two drawers. Feet cut out of the solid ends. An old brass bat wing-type escutcheon decorates the top of the front. Drawers have molded edges, oval brasses and bat-wing escutcheons.
Blanket Chest
Hepplewhite blanket chest painted with a brown-red finish with darker graining. Lift top with two drawers. Feet cut to look like bracket feet. Shaped front and side skirts. Old brass escutcheons and brasses. Molded-edge drawers.
Blanket Chest
Six board blanket chest with lift top with molded edge. Four of the planks are painted red with free-hand black designs.
Blanket Chest
Painted blanket chest with hinged and molded cover. Small covered till inside and molded base. Blue-gray paint.
Blanket Chest
Blanket chest with lift-top box on bracket feet with three small molded edge drawers. Painted red.
Blazing Star Quilt
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.
Blotter
Sander. Three bands of punched decoration on base and turned shaft. Double edge on rim decorated with tiny scalloping..
Bobbin Holder
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.
Boot Last
Shoemaker's boot last. Whittled hickory boot form with movable foot on a pegged joint & handle carved from the "leg".
Boot Scraper
Boot scraper shaped like two dolphins, nose to nose. Bar between tails forms scraper. Three screw holes in flat base.
Bootjack
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
Bootjack
Wooden bootjack with a forked shape and a block of wood attached perpendicularly above the divergent part of the fork.
Bottle
Bottle with green lateral sides and sloping shoulder. Sloping rim with string lip. Dug from the earth along the Barge Canal.
Bottle
Olive-green, amber, gin bottle blown in a square-sided mold. Six-sided star and a circle in each corner of base.
Bottle
Blown, double flask shaped like a bellows with applied rosettes, probably a glass blowers' "whimsey".
Bottle
Blown, seamed olive-amber bottle with pontil scar. Embossed on bottom: "Ricketts".
Bottle
Aqua glass bottle, mold-blown. Top and bottom of the body is ribbed horizontally. The middle is smooth glass. Lip is plain, pontil broken.
Bottle
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.
Bottle
Blown glass amber-colored bottle with four flaring sides, rounded shoulder and applied top. Pontil scar.
Bottle
Olive-green, amber, gin bottle blown in a square-sided mold. Six-sided star and a circle in each corner of base.
Bottle
Green glass bottle with wide rounded body with rounded neck and 1'' lips. Seam going down both sides of body. Numbers 3 and 10 on bottom.
Bottle
Dark green bottle with small indentation on side, long narrow neck and rounded shoulder.
Bottle
Olive-green, gin bottle blown in a square-sided mold. Marking could possibly be a pontil scar.
Bottle
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.
Bottle Drying Rack
Bottle dryer made of a 1 7/8" piece of oak with four tapered sticks set into its face and wire hanger nailed into top.
Bowl
A wheel-thrown bowl made of red clay, covered with a brown-tan lead glaze featuring dark specks of deeper brown. The bowl has ear-like handles and is attributed to Alvin Wilcox of West Bloomfield, New York, based on matching shards found at the site of his pottery shop.
Bowl
End of the day glass work blown into the same form of object number 2022.28.036. Tiny bowl in aquamarine, front has an empty oval frame, on the opposite side is a flower in a circular frame. Two-tiered base three tiers around the neck.
Bowl
Bowl with interior printed with a blue transfer of floral and geometric patterns in an Italian design. Yellow-brown rim.
Bowl
Feather edge pearlware bowl. Ivory basecolor with blue edge. Small chips present
Bowl
Pearlware bowl with a blue transfer of two fishermen. Border is embossed with green and white leaves and blue flowers.
Box
Box with wooden base. Pasteboard sides covered with green/pink plaid paper (appears to be a green stripe because of fading.) Bright blue/gold label with grapes covers lid.
Box
Paper box the lower half of which is covered in a pink small pattern. Top covered with a black and white label with swan and two fountains. Top of box painted yellow under the pink paper and label.
Box
Bentwood box with sheet iron hoops. Traces of a red stain on exterior. Branded into exterior side: "H.L. 1889"
Box
Painted green with hinged lid and applied molding on the cover and base In pencil on the inside top of cover "Daniel Page Simons [Swissons?] E.E., Dryden N.Y., A."
Box
Round with bent wood sides. Exterior painted dark mustard with black and lilac sponged design.
Box
Small box with carved top. A medallion on the top of the lid shows a carving of two men, the corner of a building, and decorative scroll work. Box is hinged with a tiny brass flower on the front of it. Interior is lined with blue velvet and an impression is left where something once sat. Most likely a brooch.
Box
Box with wooden base. Pasteboard sides covered with green/pink plaid paper (appears to be a green stripe because of fading.) Bright blue/gold label with grapes covers lid.
Box
Round box with lid and handle in its original green paint, most of which is faded to gray. Hand-hewn handle and pegs which secure the handle to the box.
Bracelet
Bracelet with strap band with clasp and crimped 4-layer blossom on front. 10th wedding anniversary gift.
Braid
Green braid in 5 yard package wrapped in paper label. 76.114.12-16, one is missing.
Braid
Blue braid in 5 yard package and wrapped in paper label. 76.144.38-44, missing one.