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Lot 213
Sale 1314 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Mar 15, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$500 -
800
Price Realized
$826
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Lot Description
A Country Grain Painted Yellow Poplar Blanket Chest
Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio Late 19th Century
inscribed in paint on the verso “C. Gerburich Wooster Wayne Co Ohi…”
Height 23 1/2 x width 38 1/4 x depth 19 inches.
This chest likely belonged to a Caroline Gerberich (1842-1923) of Smithville, Ohio. Gerberich was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania and moved west to Ohio with her family in 1871.
Property from the Robert and Nancy Treichler Collection of Ohio Stoneware and Americana, Tallmadge, Ohio