Lot 133: Desk Box and Photographs

Pine, original red painted surface, half-inch raised backsplash, slanted lid, lipped and dovetailed drawer, small brass openwork pull on front latches the drawer when turned vertically, (small nick out of bottom right corner), finely dovetailed case, 4 3/4″ h, 14 1/2″ w, 12 3/4″ d, with note “From Enfield Shaker Colony to Arthur Rock, his son Herbert, wife Gertrude Rock”; five photographs of Canterbury and Enfield, NH Shaker Sisters including Grace Holbrook and Mary Darling, Mary Baseford and Elizabeth Estabrook, and A. Howland, E. Hudson, Flora Appleton and M. Frost of Canterbury; also includes newsclippings from the Manchester Union Leader 1988 and 1990 concerning the Shakers, Yankee Magazine from August 1988 about Eldress Bertha Lindsay, and an early paper cookbook.

Estimate: $3,500-5,000