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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 Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Group of Wheelwright Tools
Lot 1176

Group of Wheelwright Tools

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White County, Georgia, late 1800s, wheelwright’s “traveler,” hand-forged iron, 11 x 6 in. overall. 

Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 139, cat. no. 439, Burrison writes “This tool measured the circumference of an iron wagon wheel tire. The ring (recycled from an old horseshoe) was rotated around the edge of the wheel rim, and the number of revolutions…was reproduced on the flat tire stock.”; 

Gilmer County, Georgia, wheelwright’s “traveler” or wheel-race, hand-carved wood, 13-1/4 x 6-1/4 in. overall; Blairsville, Union County, Georgia, wheelwright’s hub reamer, hand-forged iron, 12 x 3 in. overall; Union County, Georgia felloe frame saw, iron and wood, 22 x 21 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 to iron, cracks and splits to wood, condition consistent with age and use

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