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American & Southern | December 5, 2024

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Featuring items from the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia: to include early Southern pottery with Edgefield, Georgia and Alabama examples as well as a Lanier Meaders face jug; Southern furniture to include four sugar chests, Kentucky sideboard, early long guns with Southern examples, Chinese export to include three Charles Manigault examples, fine art work by Will Henry Stevens, Carl Kraft and Alice R. Huger Smith and others, silver to include Tiffany and aesthetic movement examples
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Lot 1177

Group of Five Farming and Digging Implements

Estimate: $100 - $300
Starting Bid
$50

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Gilmer County, Georgia, circa 1900, ginseng digger, hand-forged iron blade, 13 x 4 in. overall.; Forsyth County, Georgia, circa 1930s, mattock blade, Ford leaf spring, 23-1/2 x 10 in. overall; Gilmer County, Georgia, mid-1800s, hay-rake blade, hand-forged iron, 15 x 4 x 7 in. overall; early 1800s, hoe blade, hand-forged iron, 6-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. overall; baling hook, hand-forged iron, 10-3/4 x 4 x 5 in. overall

Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia

Exhibited: Previously on Loan at the Atlanta History Center for viewing in the exhibition Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South from 1996 to 2024

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From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia

pitting to iron, loss and wear to wood, loose handles, condition consistent with age and use