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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
Dark green bottle with small indentation on side, long narrow neck and rounded shoulder.
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
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.
Braid
Brown braid in 5 yard package and wrapped in paper label. 76.114.21-28, one missing.
Braid
Dark brown braid in 5 yard package and wrapped in paper label. 76.114.29-31, one missing.
Braid
White braid in 5 yard package and wrapped in paper label. 76.114.32-37, two missing.
Brass Plate
Brass plate off a monument on the boundary of the Erie Canal. Reads: "Erie Canal / Sect. Nine / Cen. Line Mon." and " Sta" and Offset" Blocks beside "Sta" and "Offset" are blank.
Breakfast Table
Drop leaf table with one drawer with brass circular pull. String inlay around top edge, drawer and down legs. Line and cuff inlays on tapered legs. Book inlay above each leg. Hepplewhite Pembroke
Broad Loom
A two-harness barn frame broad loom featuring a six-pointed star, compass-drawn, carved on the cross beam above the back warp beam.
Broadside, "Holley Cabinet Ware House"
This broadside advertises Chase Richardson's cabinetmaking business, and reads, in part: Holley / Cabinet/ Ware House. / C. Richardson / would inform the people of Holley, and vicinity, / that he still continues the Cabinet Making business 3 doors south of Perry's Tavern..." Printed in various sizes and styles of type, with a central composite image of period furniture, including a dresser, paint fancy chairs, Grecian settee, a washstand and tilt-top table. The text within a thick ornamental border.
Broadside, 1809
Broadside pronouncing the lifting of embargo and non-intercourse law with Great Britain. Dated 1809.
Brooks Grove Church Book
Broom
Broom and handle made from one piece. Broom "straws" have been whittled from handle and tied with a piece of rawhide (missing). Rawhide tie through hole at end of handle.
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.