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Lot 110
Sale 6113 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 13, 2013
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,500 -
2,500
Price Realized
$1,300
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Items associated with the Capen and Billings families of Massachusetts 18th and 19th century
Including an oval, chip-carved box decorated with flowerheads, banding and the initial "B" enclosed in a coiling snake reserve, incised, "April 19, 1781" on underside; a watchman's rattle branded, "W.R."; a gentleman's folding leather wallet embossed with eagles on urns and landscape with Mt. Vernon; and a powderhorn with handwritten inscription "Samuel Capen's horn 1785."
L: 15 in. (horn)