In use in main room as a collection tray. French silver gilt card tray; flower and leaf and multiple circle design; handle collapses easily, has pattern on top of handle. Ball feet.
This is the piano bench that goes with F1 (Pease Piano) which is presently in Ted Claydon's barn awaiting a move to Helen Sharron Pollard's home (former home of Chauncey Pease) (please see F1). Made by Chauncey Pease. Archer Fitzgerald is the great…
In south vestibule at foot of stairs. Two drawer table made of maple. Lathed (turned) legs have multiple ridges; top has corners shaped coincidentally with legs (cookie corners). Called a 'Sheraton stand,' has new drawer pulls.
In the south vestibule. Lyn took a picture of this when it was in her house and has left a note in its one drawer with instructions for carrying it if it needs to be moved. The drawer has a brass pull, leg supports are curved.
Square top Table - top is rough hewn and in bad condition; sides and legs handhewn and primitively painted with faux grain decoration. Recovered from Capen/Riverside on 7/31/2006. It is currently in use as a steady base to hold scanner.
Chauncey Pease is the maker of the piano. Please see F2, piano bench. The piano in the WHS is very much in use, especially by the Hilltown Chorus and the Celebration Singers. Michael McAnulty paid to have it restored in 1999-2000. However, this is…
Color pastel and pencil drawing of 'the Starkweather Place,' 1898, by Guy Bartlett (1882-1970). Pictured are farmhouses, barns, mountain, stone wall. It is in a frame that is too large for its size. Pencil lines indicate size to be cut. Hanging in…
Crayon colored portrait of Susan Tracy Rice, Age 39, but appearing to be much younger. She is holding snow shoes with a winterscape in the background. It is a full length portrait and she is dressed in an outdoor winter costume of the late 1900s. The…
Fordyce Sampson (~1796-Aug 24, 1842) of Worthington, April 12, 1816. 'Song of Praise for All'. 'When all thy mercies , O My God/ my rising soul surveys/transported withe view f'm high/in wonder love and praise/ To all my weak complaints &…