Measurement: Frame: 16.75" x 17"; view: 12.5" x 13"
Material: Paper
Condition: Excellent
Additional Information: Intricate scissor work, 16-point star within multiple borders
flanked by octagonal border centering undulating leafy vines with flowers. Outstanding
spandrels featuring urns surmounted with hearts and flanked with scrolled vine
devices…all within a complex border.
SOLD
171-161
Friendship Token, True Love Knot
To Ann Crocker
April the 9th 1759
Anonymous
Precise draftsmanship, remaining colors are bright otherwise fugitive pigments - SOLD
Neatly compartmentalized verse, hearts, pinwheels, and other devices; thinning paint seems to be mostly confined to lettering. (Frame: 16 by 21.75"; view: 14 by 19.75")
SOLD
424-160
Heart Taufschein Print, Hand Colored, Fraktur
Printed in Reading, Pennsylvania by Jacob Schneider for Frederick Krebs
Circa 1801
Ex Musselman Collection (1989) - SOLD
Very good condition, mounted within a period painted frame.
(Frame: 19.5 by 16.5"; view: 16.5 by 13.5")
1009-3 - SOLD
Hannah Chase Ward's Love Token Feb. 28th 1858 - SOLD
Applique paper hearts with braided hair signed and dated in lemon gold frame
Dimensions: sight size 6.5 by 9-inches, frame 8.5 by 9-inches.
210-125 - SOLD
Love Token Knitting Sheath
Britain or Wales - SOLD
Measurement: Frame: 5.25" x 6.125"; view: 3.25" x 4.125"
Material: Pen, ink, and watercolor on paper
Condition: Good, typical toning, scattered minor staining
Additional Information: Presentation piece of some kind made to be presented as
school prize or gift in the form of a bookmark. Mounted within a period walnut frame in
old black paint; archival mounted.
At the center, conjoined hearts issuing a leafy vine joining two pair of flanking hearts
within stylized border. Folds, toning and minor paper losses; not examined out of frame.
(The modern frame measures: 15.25 x 13.25"; view: 13.5" x 11.5")
The lowers section with script surmounted by colorful potted flowers, spotted birds, and a portrait bust of a woman, all surrounded by yellow, black, and red borders. See The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia, plates 66 and 67. (9.5 by 7.5"; add 1 3/8" for frame)
Published within the Boston directories, Coles appears in 1796 as a heraldry painter. His son, John Coles, Jr. was also a portrait and heraldic painter. John Coles, and his son John, Jr., both of Boston, were actively painting coats-of-armor in New England during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and during the early nineteenth. Their work was generally after works published within Guillim's "Display of Heraldry," a folio published in several editions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The work is mounted within period Hogarth type frame; as depicted, minor losses at lower right.
(Frame: 14.5 by 12.25"; sight-size: 12 3/8 by 10")
The Hall Family; attributed to John Coles, Jr. (1749 to 1809)
In the Boston directories, Coles appears in 1796 as a heraldry painter. His son, John Coles, Jr. was also a portrait and heraldic painter.
John Coles, and his son John, Jr., both of Boston, were industrious painters of coat-armor in New England in the last quarter of the eighteenth century and in the early nineteenth. Their work was generally copied from Guillim's "Display of Heraldry," a folio published in several editions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The work is mounted within a Hogarth type frame by Perry Hopf. Good condition. (Frame: 14.75" by 12.25"; sight-size: 12.25 by 9.75")
414-15 - SOLD
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![Early 19th Century Family Record
Anonymous, American School, 1817
“A Figuar [sic] of Matrimony”, entire view](https://www.aaawt.com/images/Family-Record,-Pen-&-Ink_1326-9.jpg)
