Lot 78: Sister’s Pail

SOLD: $3,600  (without buyer’s premium)
Estimate: $2,000 – $4,000

Pine, original yellow painted exterior, original light blue painted interior, heavy wire swing bail with diamond shaped bail secures, and turned birch handle in original red stained finish, original steel banded wraps, signed on bottom in large black ink letters “MC.”, and signed in pencil “Martha Crooker, 1853.”, 12” h (to top of handle), 6 1/2” h (to rim), 9” dia, (Priscilla Archibald estate, Powder Point, Duxbury, MA).

Note: Sister Martha Crooker (1825-1895), gathered into the Church Family at Canterbury on June 17, 1886, and was a nurse. She was a Sister at Enfield, NH previously.