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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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Two Early Georgia Metal Folk Instruments
Lot 1157

Two Early Georgia Metal Folk Instruments

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American, late 19th century, comprising: metal plated fiddle, carved and painted wood body with sheet metal backboard and frontboard, F holes, 22 x 6 x 1-1/2 in.; cylindrical fiddle, galvanized iron canister with hand-forged iron neck brace, tailpiece, and nut, Roswell, Fulton County, Georgia, 25-1/2 x 6-3/8 x 7-1/8 in.

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

Note: Smaller fiddle pictured in Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South by John A. Burrison, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 30.

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

surface dirt and accretion, wear and loss to wood commensurate with age and use, metal elements with some denting, discoloration, and pitting, some rust and corrosion, both lacking strings; smaller fiddle lacking tuners; cylindrical example with some cracks to top of body

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