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Blanket Chests
Linen Fold Chest Blanket Chest, Shadow Molded Massachusetts Board Chest
Date/Period: 1680 - 1720
Measurement: Height: 22.5’; width: 45"; depth: 16.75"
Material: Hard yellow pine
Condition: In generally good condition commensurate with age and use.
Cupping to lid.
Additional Information: The cleated top slightly overhanging the nailed-board
chest ornamented with linen fold carved front and side panels. The chest
displays an outstanding original attic surface…a soulful survivor.
$6,250.00
1488-57
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Queen Anne Blanket Chest, Best Proportions and Surface, Outstanding
New Hampshire, Possibly Dover
Date/Period: Circa 1740
Measurement: Height: 46"; width: 34.5"; depth: 17.25"
Material: Northeastern white pine, wrought iron hardware
Condition: Very good, The drawers were originally designed without pulls. Tiny
piercings that do not entirely penetrate drawer fronts suggest that small brass pulls were
likely added before the wonderful current blacksmith-made hardware probably dating to
circa 1800. Top lip of bottom drawer displays losses.
Additional Information: Wonderful form displaying two-to-one proportions, desirable
original natural surface, and featuring unique hand wrought iron hardware. The lift top
with applied moldings above a deep chest above two working drawers; the whole on
molded base raised on exceptionally tall [cyma recta profile] feet, each with small cusp.
Drawer secondary wood beautifully molded; large early type dovetail joinery.
$8,350.00
935-104
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Joined Chest with Drawer, Pilgrim Century, Historic Surface, Massachusetts
Probably Dedham or Medfield
Date/Period: 1675-1688
Measurement: Height: 26.5: depth: 19.25; width: 43.75"
Material: Oak and pine
Condition: Original condition as descended, commensurate with age and use. As is
generally encountered the snipe hinge piercings are naturally worn/enlarged from use;
both hinges are original. The lid displays wear (wood loss) worn smooth by handling
and lock use at center of front edge as depicted. The proper left front corner of lid
displays a small very old patch that measures 1 by 3-inches. The patch really doesn’t
distract. Traces of very early thinning soft, mellow gray paint over original surface
especially in carving recesses are extant. The chest displays great color and
patina…never messed with. We invite you to call or email David to discuss this chest:
978.597.8084 or drh@aaawt.com
Additional Information: Joined chest, a survivor. Molded top projecting over the joined
case featuring three molded and chamfered recessed front panels; the sides and back
with two panels each. The rails, stiles and muntins are channel molded as is the side-
hung drawer face retaining original turned pulls. The rived drawer bottom is tapered
along the front edge and fits into a narrow grove within the inside of drawer front. The
drawer sides are fastened with two nails, each countersunk above and below the slide.
These and other construction techniques are assigned to Dedham and Medfield shop
traditions. See Winterthur Portfolio 13, edited by Ian Quimby; Style and Structure in the
Joinery of Dedham and Medfield, Massachusetts, 1635-1685 by Robert Blair St.
George, pp. 1 – 46. The author attributes the joinery to the Thurston family shops; this
chest possibly by Thomas Thurston (b. 1640, d. 1688). See page 14, figure 14 for side
view drawer detail.
$11,900.00
843-441
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Pilgrim Century Linen-Fold Board Chest
Dated 1697, Initialed “SL”
Massachusetts,
Connecticut River Valley
Yellow Pine
This six-board chest, with an unverified Hadley - Deerfield, Massachusetts
legacy was bought from the family some 40-years ago; The chest displays notched and scratched
decoration that speaks to early shop traditions. The rectangular top above the nailed case
featuring double linen-fold molding centering the initials and date “SL – 97” and gouge
carved/scratch-decorated ends. The chest is raised on shaped cutout feet. The initials
“SL” may be for Sarah Lyman of Northampton. (Typical of a great many of these early chests,
the lid is an old replacement; Height: 22"; width: 54"; depth: 17.5")
$4,500.00
514-267
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Sugar Chest, Sheraton, Wide Rectangular Form, Original Surface
Probably Kentucky, Unknown Maker
Date/Period: Circa 1830
Measurement: H: 30"; W: 39"; D: 17"
Material: White walnut (Butternut) with poplar secondary wood
Condition: Very good. The once divided interior retains four original guides that
received the removeable dividing panel which is missing. The surface is darkly oxidized
and uniform; a small are of surface loss [on top] was professionally restored. Displays
beautifully.
Additional Information: The rectangular lid with cleated ends having applied moldings
and retaining original butt-hinges above a conforming case of mortise and tenon joinery;
the whole on nicely turned legs resting on ball-feet; legs and stiles integral.
$2,950.00
1335-55
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Tall Antique Blanket Chest, Lift Top, Three False over Two Working Drawers Façade, Old Red Paint
Connecticut, Circa 1760
The lift-top with applied molded edge over a deep chest above two working drawers; the molded base
resting on cutout ogee feet. The Sheraton period drawer pulls are certainly later that the chest.
(Height: 47"; width: 38.25"; depth: 18.75")
$2,600.00
271-63
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Antique Blanket Chest or Board Chest
with Drawer, Likely Plymouth County, Massachusetts,
Circa 1720
Unusual Diminutive Proportions
Surface appears to be a wonderful later 18th century red wash over dark stain; the voids cut in the extensions of side-boards that form the feet are associated with board-chests produced in Plymouth County during the late 17th to early 18th centuries. See Robert Blair St. Gorges, The Wrought Covenant, pp. 33, 34, and 41. Intact structural condition; retaining original nailing schedule, “snipe-bill” hinges, lid, and internal cleats; H: 29.5"; W: 43.5"; D: 16". There was a long-ago beetle infestation, limited to bottom of lower backboard; absolutely not active. The lid with molded front edge and chamfered ends is slightly cupped.
$3,575
492-163
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Blanket Chest, Deep Well
Original brasses and surface
Circa 1785
The surface is partially over-varnished.
Dimensions: 47.5" H, 42" W, 17" D.
$4,335
540-1
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