Lot 250: Two Oval Sewing Carriers And Broadside

Estimate: $500 – $700

Maple, oak and pine, three fingers, swing handle, silk lined interior with attachments, blue crocheted needlecase, strawberry emery, tomato pincushion and blue ribboned conical bees wax, 3″ h, 7 3/4″ l; Oak carrier, original varnish finish, four fingers, swing handle, silk lined interior with matching attachments, needlecase, emery, pincushion, and wax, stamped on bottom “Alfred, Me.”, 3 3/8″ h, 10 1/2″ l, (note: both of these carriers were fitted by Flo Fertig in the 1980's); Broadside “For Flo Miss You!!! Love From Us.”, signed by the Sabbathday Lake Shakers as “Sr. Minnie Greene, Love Sr. Frances, Sister Mildred Barker, 'Bless the Souls connecting bond', Br. Theodore Johnson”, and others, hand set and printed at the Shaker Press by Howard Fertig and Brother Arnold, October 22, 1982, (ex. Fertig collection).