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  • Ship Carved Figure
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    Carved figure of a woman standing upright on a scrolled base. Carved from Pine with in service paint, American, circa 1850.
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    Antique Mid-19th Century North American Folk Art Nautical Objects

    Materials

    Pine

  • Nantucket Lightship Basket, Made by Davis Hall on the South Shoal Lightship
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    Oval Nantucket lightship basket with shaped oak swing handle ending in carved round “lollipop” ends and brass ears. Remnants of the original paper label remains on the bottom. Made...
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    Antique Late 19th Century North American Folk Art Nautical Objects

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    Cane, Rattan, Oak

  • Nest of Three 19th Century Signed Nantucket Lightship Baskets
    By Rowland Folger
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    Nest of three Nantucket lightship baskets, the swing handles, staves and the ears ( which attach the handle to the basket) are all carved from oak. The bottoms are made from pine and each are stenciled with the maker's mark, "R Folger Maker Nantucket Mass." Rowland Folger (1803-1883) is considered one of Nantucket's first makers of lightship baskets. His baskets are very durable and were definitely used as utilitarian.These three baskets were discovered in an attic, where they were living for the last 90 years...
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    Antique Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Nautical Objects

    Materials

    Brass

  • Antique Folk Art Reverse Painted and Foil Exhibition Sign in Gilt Frame
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    Folk Art exhibition sign, reverse painted glass with reserved text backed in gold and silver crinkled foil reading "Exhibition / of / Paintings / on / Glass / By Edgar F. Curtis" E...
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    Early 20th Century American Folk Art Signs

    Materials

    Foil

  • Small Sailor Whirligig, circa 1930-1940
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    Figural standing sailor whirligig, carved from Pine wearing a white hat with metal brim, a blue sailor’s middy with scarf, striped red and white unde...
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    Early 20th Century American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings

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    Pine

  • Fine Paint Decorated Double Sided Game Board
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    Double sided painted game board with a red, black, yellow and green checkerboard on one side and a “X” painted game board on the reverse side, American, circa 1900. Measures: 16” ...
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    Early 20th Century Game Boards

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    British Sailor's large woolwork of HMS Brunswick, Circa 1865 The large sailor's woolwork depicts an image of a Royal Navy Second Rate Battleship. By repute she is the HMS Brunswick ...
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    Antique Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Decorative Art

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  • 19th Century Sailor's Woolwork of Frigate with Signal Flags
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    19th Century Sailor's woolwork of a British Frigate at Anchor, circa 1880, adorned with an array of British ensigns and a full rig of signal flags strung along the stays. The hull has the unusual touch of having glass beads mounted in each gunport, and a metaliic gilt thread highlighting the strakes above and below the two rows of gunports, and on the sterncastle. Mercantile silk threads were used for the flag halyards. The ship is moored off a lighthouse at the foot of a large green haystack headland. The woolwork is mounted in its original Victorian carved, ebonized and parcel gilt oak frame...
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    Located in Downingtown, PA
    British sailor's woolwork with unusual border, Chain stitch, Circa 1875 The unusually designed charming sailor's woolie depicts a starboard side view of a British two-masted sh...
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  • British Sailor's Large Woolwork Woolie of HMS Victoria
    Located in Downingtown, PA
    British sailor's woolwork woolie of HMS Victoria, Berlin wool on linen (Duck), circa 1865 The large sailor's woolwork or woolie depicts HMS Victoria, named below on a banner, wi...
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    Antique Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Nautical Objects

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  • British Sailor's Woolwork, With Motto of The Order of The Garter
    Located in Downingtown, PA
    British Sailor's Woolwork, With Motto of The Order of The Garter, Circa 1880. The unusual sailor's woolwork depicts a soldier and a sailor standing and pointing with one hand to either side of a circular device in the form of a garter with the Union Jack within and the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense...
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    Antique Late 19th Century English Folk Art Nautical Objects

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  • British Sailor's Woolwork Pair of Pictures or Woolies with Ship and Flags
    Located in Downingtown, PA
    The pair of large Sailor's woolwork pictures are within maple frames and a gilt inner border with a sand colored mat. These are known as woolies. The pictures are a true pair with all the details reversed with the ships facing towards each other. The wools have a central round panel depicting a ship on stormy seas with puffed sails and arrayed around the panel are eight flags, four to each side. On the outside is the United States flag depicted in blue and white below which is an unidentified British flag, the Turkish flag...
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