Lot 132: Sister’s Spool Carousel

SOLD: $4,500 (without buyer’s premium)
Estimate: $2,000 – $4,000

Tiger birch and birch, top section with exceptional round finial with three scribe lines, two turned round disks with multiple scribe lines and six turned wood spindles, each round top with three scribe lines, holding six matching cherry red spools (1 1/4″ h), seated on a 2″ spindle above a turned mushroom, with two scribe lines at the very edge and a subtle stepped base with multiple scribe lines on the top, and on the side of the base, Enfield or Canterbury, NH, c. 1830, 6″ h, 3 1/2″ dia.

Note:  One of the finest examples of a Shaker Brother’s work at turning on a lathe that we have sold.