Lot 142: Ephemera and Swift

Estimate: $500 – $700
Price Realized: $324.50

Seven copies of “The Shaker Manifesto, G.A. Lomas, Editor, Shakers, N.Y.”, a monthly paper cover journal, 1881, 1883 (five copies), 1884; “The Shaker Almanac 1886, The Mystery Explained”; Two copies of “The Story of the Shakers, 1882”; Three needle books: A Cardboard Kitten “Set Me Up, Corticelli, Silk Thread”; Needlecase with houses, and “One Hundred” gold eye needles, 20th c.; Framed and matted print “The Shakers in Niskayuna – The Singing Meeting”, and a collection of woodblock and steel engravings (3), “Shaker Village in Hancock” (1839), “Shaker Buildings in New Lebanon” (1841), “The Village of the United Society of Shakers in Canterbury N.H.” (1839), hand-colored; “Shakers Dance” (1882); “The Office and Store”, New Lebanon, NY; and a Table Swift, with original thumbscrews, maple and poplar, original chrome yellow clamp, Hancock, MA, good condition, 21″ l.