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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 1174

Group of Five Georgia Hunting and Fishing Objects

Estimate: $100 - $300
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$50

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Lon Reid, Choestoe, Union County, Georgia, 1969, turkey caller, maple, corrugated wooden cylinder and grooved wooden block, 5 x 5 in. overall; Chatsworth, Murray County, Georgia, 1860s, hunting knife, bone handle and hand forged iron blade, 9-1/2 x 1-1/4 in. overall

Note: In the catalog description from Shaping TraditionsFolk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 112, cat. no. 78, Burrison writes “The bone-handled knife was used by the Plemons family.”;

Georgia, circa early 1900s, hunting knife, steel (from a circle-saw blade) and wood, 8-1/2 x 1-1/8 in. overall; Montrose, Laurens County, Georgia, circa late 1800s, sturgeon “gig”, hand-forged iron, 9 x 3-1/2 in. overall; Monticello, Jasper county, Georgia, circa 1900, frog or fish “gig”, recycled from an old file, 8-3/4 x 3 in. overall 

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

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

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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 and oxidation to iron, some loss to grooved caller, condition consistent with age and use