Wooden, oval band box. Hand painted with picture of young lady carrying basket of carrots with two rabbits at her side. Painted red band at bottom of box. Written on bottom of box 'antique box decorated by The Kauffmans Henry and Zoe.'
Hand painted feather fan with pierced bone stays and white feathers. Painted on one side is multicolor spray of flowers with perching bird.
The 20 feathers connect on back with string near midpoint. First and last bone stays are nearly as long as the feathers while remainder of stays are only 3.25" long. Fan spreads open at pivot point at bottom where a stirrup shaped wire is riveted to bottom ends of stays with mother-of-pear washers. Hanging off wire is a double length of braided silk cord, decoratively knotted near midpoint. Cord ends wrap around small beads and unbraided individual threads extend from beads to create tassels. Accompanied by small hand-lettered label: "Fan - mid 19th century."
Front bone stay is cracked and broken at three places along its length. Cellophane tape hold first break from bottom. Soil and stain overall, especially on cord.
Object ID
1980.003.8
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Richard Nixon Award. Two sided medallion suspended on wooden dowel mounted in wooden base. Plaque on base: "With Deep Apprectiation / Richard Nixon / 1968"
Face Side:" Richard Milhous Nixon"
Reverse: "37th President of the United States of America . Inagurated January 20th 1969"
Richard Nixon Award. Two-sided medallion and metal gold-painted stand in plastic protective casing (cracked). Face side of medallion visible: "Richard Milhous Nixon"
Plastic keystone with pin attached to back. "Pennsylvania" at top and seal of PA centered below in silver on a dark blue background. On white strip between,"Sally Stauffer / Honorary President" written in blue marker.
Blue rectangle with white recessed border and rounded corners. White eagle on the left and a griffin on the right turned inward to face white Roman numeral 2 (II) in center of patch. May have been cut from gray fabric.
