possibly mid 1800s, forks, bone and metal, set of four with bone handles and three tines, 6-1/2 in. long; Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, 1800s, sifter, rawhide and wood, 7-3/4 x 2-3/4 in. overall; Washington County, Georgia, circa 1860s, coffee pot, copper, 10-1/2 x 6-1/2 in. overall; Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, trivet, forged iron, turntable type, solid iron disk. 3-3/4 x 20 in. overall;

Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 140, cat. no. 448, Burrison writes, “This implement for open-hearth cooking was used at the Stetson-Nesbit-Morris house.”; 

Georgia, circa 1900, oil lamp, copper, brass, 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 in. overall; Washington County, Georgia, 1850s, dough tray, poplar, 27-1/2 x 17-1/4 x 5 in. overall;

Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 132, cat. no. 343, Burrison writes, “This biscuit-making implement was used on the plantation of Henry Sills Taylor.”

Illustrated: Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 81, description on pg. 140, cat. nos. 452-3.

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