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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 1180

Group of Woodworking Related Objects

Estimate: $100 - $300
Starting Bid
$50

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(American, early 1800s-late 1900s), Walter Shelnut, White Creek, White County, Georgia, 1977, made for the folklife collection, chair-assembly mallet, sourwood head and oak handle, 12 x 5 in. overall; 1971, chair post-turning chisel, hand-forged iron blade, 16-1/2 x 2 in. overall; Choestoe, Union County, Georgia, 1800s, mortising chisel, attached tag notes its use for "Mortisin chisel for cutting slits in rear chair posts to receive slats, used by Lon Reid of Choestoe, Union county (1885-1972)", 14 x 1-1/2 in. overall; Fry, Fannin County, Georgia, late 1800s, maker unknown, owned by George Lanning, plane, chip-carved decoration, 6-1/4 x 1-3/4 in. overall; Washington County, Georgia, early 1800s, wood blade square, maker unknown, 5-1/4 x 4-1/2 in. overall; Fry, Fannin County, Georgia, late 1800s, maker unknown, owned by George Lanning, iron blade square, 4 x 3-3/4 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

condition consistent with age and use, pitting and dents to iron, slight wear and loss to wooden squares