Cut glass liquor decanter with spiral cut glass mushroom lid. Neck consists of 4 rings. The body of the decanter is a decagon shape (10 sides). 1.00" break/missing glass along the lip.
Year Range From
1714
Year Range To
1837
Storage Location
Wheatland, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Library
Storage Wall
Southwest Wall
Storage Cabinet
Table
Storage Shelf
Table Top
Object Name
Decanter
Material
Glass
Height (cm)
28.575
Height (ft)
0.9375
Height (in)
11.25
Depth (cm)
8.89
Depth (ft)
0.2916666667
Depth (in)
3.5
Circumference (ft)
37.465
Circumference (cm)
1.2291666667
Circumference (in)
14.75
Dimension Details
Measured height includes mushroom stopper. Height of body is 8.50". Measurements taken with tape measure.
Height: Measured bottom to top
Circumference: Measureed at widest point of the body
Named for its principle use, this mahogany table top, with its oblong top and bead molded edge, was typically found at the side of a bedstead. The table's skirt is three to four inches deep and contains a single drawer that is the full width of the skirt. The drawer has two original brass knob pulls and a top centered brass escutcheon keyhole. The table is supported by four round tapering legs with ring and ball turnings at the top and two sets of ring turnings approximately two inches above the tapered feet of the legs.
Provenance
Alexander Speer, maternal first cousin to James Buchanan
Blue cobalt toilet bottles. Opaque glass ball-topped stopper with gold dot on top. Flattish lip, long neck with foliate / berry painted design in white and orange. White wreath painted around shoulder with gold line band below.
Brass wick trimmer, traditionally known as a snuffer, looks like a pair of scissors. A raised rectangular box sits atop of the blades. The scissors sit horizontally supported on three brass legs.
This Berlinwork floral arrangement is cross-stitched on canvas using wool threads/strands. (The first patterns were published in Berlin, Germany.) The variety of colors create shading to provide dimension to the bouquet that contains many pink/red flowers. Sarah Ann Franz cross-stitched her name at the bottom center.
The piece is framed with a double mat, white and pink, in a large frame of mahogany veneer.
Sheraton mirror, popularly called a tabernacle mirror because its mahogany frame with its pilastered sides and decorative frieze panel resemble the glazed door of a niche in a large display piece of furniture. The flat molded cornice has projecting breaks at the corners. There are single reeded pilasters with urn-shaped capitals. The base of the frame is molded to correspond to the cornice and its square corners form the plinths beneath the pilasters. The oblong frieze has a reverse painting on glass depicting a seated mother and child playing a harp on the grassy wooded shore of a river.
Left-facing silhouette of Joseph Simon in profile, in black wooden frame. Image is superimposed over a blue paper background in an oval cutout. Raised border around oval. Oval is surrounded by a rectangular window mat with raised stippled decoration. Frame measures 6 inches by 6 inches. Black paper covers back of frame.
Note: See Object File for additional information on Joseph Simon. This object was on loan to LancasterHistory for the Communities of Faith exhibit in 2005.
Provenance
Two notes and business card of Mary Miley Theobald attached to back of frame include family genealogy and provenance. Simon was the sixth great-grandfather of the donor.
Date Range
Circa 1800
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 05
Storage Drawer
Drawer 17
Object Name
Silhouette
Object ID
2023.012.001
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Small black fabric purse with arched metal snap closure. Exquisitely embellished one side with chain-stitched/tambour floral wreath in the center. Gold & silver beads outline border areas with tiny metal stars, each individually tacked to the fabric, inside. Pear-shaped with rounded metal opening and ball clasp. Small chain attached to eyes on upper edge. Lined in white fabric. Label sewn inside: "MADE IN FRANCE."
A. White cotton underskirt. 20.25 inches long. 9.5-inch waist with button closure.1.75-inch double fabric band with 2.5 -inch wide gathered fabric below edged in lace. A tear.(Larger version of 1977.005.012.C)
B. White cotton underskirt. 22 inches long. Waistband is 10 inches to opening with an additional three-inch extension. Waistband is 2 inches wide, with 17-inch length to hem with 3-inch band of lace sewn onto hem.
C. White cotton underskirt. 17 inches long. 7.5-inch waist with button closure.1.75-inch double fabric band with 2.5 -inch wide gathered fabric below edged in lace. Button missing. Some ink-like stains on reverse. (Same pattern, but smaller than "A.")
D. White cotton underskirt. 15 inches long. 5.25-inch waist band. No closure/overlap. Machine-stitched, 1.5-inch hem.
E. White cotton underskirt. 8.5 inches long. 11.25-inch long waistband with buttonhole center front in addition to one at back opening with a button. Four .25-inch pintucks circle the skirt an inch above the hem. A 1-inch band of lace has been hand-stitched to the hem. This garment feels starched. Black ink-like stain in back seam where folded. Some brown spots.
F. White cotton underskirt. 8 inches long. 8.5-inch long waistband. Button and buttonhole at back. 4 pintucks around bottom above hem. Soiled overall. (This garment was constructed using a chain stitch machine. 1st U.S. patent in 1857.)
G. White cotton long underskirt for small doll. 9 inches long. 3.25-inch long waistband.Button and buttonhole at back. Deep 1.75-inch hem, hand stitched. 1-inch lace border at bottom. Some brown spots and stains.
H. Sweater, Crocheted white wool long-sleeved cardigan with pink scalloped border around neck, front opening, sleeves and lower edge. Pink strands with tassels attached to close sweater at neck. 8 ins. long, 9.5 ins. wide. Soiled collar.
I. Sweater, Crocheted white wool long-sleeved cardigan with light blue scalloped border around neck, front opening, sleeves and lower edge. Light blue strand with tassels threaded around neck to tie in front. One piece of strand is detached; second has been repaired. .5-inch light blue ribbon has been woven from neck down front and along entire bottom edge. 5.5-inches long, 6.75 inches wide. Some stains on ribbon, piece of sleeve edging detached, yarn around ribbon in back and portion in front is torn.
J.Sweater, Crocheted white wool long-sleeved cardigan with light blue yarn around neck, front opening, sleeves and lower edge. Strand of .25-inch white ribbon laced around neck to be tied in front (too short to be tied). 5 ins. long, 6.5 inches wide.
K. Apron. White with blue fabric band along both sides, across front 2 ins. from hem, and around waist with extensions to tie the apron. two white hearts within pink fabric borders are sewn onto apron on both sides near the top. Soiled with some fraying. 4.5 ins. waist to hem. 6.5 ins. wide. Handstitched,
L.Yoke. Starched cotton. Two pieces of fabric, stitched on chain-stitch sewing machine. Puncture marks where pins have been inserted at shoulders 4.5 ins. long. 4.5 ins. wide at shoulders.
M. Undergarment. Bloomer/drawers. White lawn, two legs with lace border. Center opening. Hand-sewn. 2.5 ins. long. 3 ins. wide. Some rust spots on lace and portion of hem at waist undone.
N. Dress/robe and scarf. Orange fabric with feather-stitch in purple thread stitched around edges of front of robe and around scarf. Open in front, but 4 ins. at bottom are tacked closed. Robe and scarf are both 10.5 ins. long. Both are heavily stained and soiled.
O. Blouse. Pale green satin with neckline and short sleeves edged with .25-inch pink velvet ribbon. Gathered at waist. Opening in back.. Hand sewn. 5.5 ins. long. Heavily stained with rusty spots on one side and back.
P. Blouse. Pink satin with disintegrating lace-like border along neckline. Opening in back. Hand sewn. 8 inches total width. 3 ins., shoulder to waist.
Q. Blouse for small doll. White cotton with 2 blue-white stripe patterns. Hand sewn.2-part sleeves are long, neckline edge carefully stitched with rolled edge. Decorative fabric tie sewn to center front. Matching scarf/ sash for waist (1.5 ins. wide; 12 ins. long) is tapered to a point at one end so it can be tucked into 2 slits cut 2 inches from the squared end.
R. 5 unidentified fabric items. (1) 5" x 2.5" white dotted-swiss rectangle, heavily stained. (2) 1.25" x 1.5" seamed and hemmed white cotton tube. (3) 5.75" x 1.5" white rectangle. Hemmed on all sides, gathered on one long edge. (4) 6" x 3" rectangle gathered along one lengthwise edge with lace sewn on top of other lengthwise edge. (5) Hemmed 2.5 inch damask cotton square, White "T" embroidered in one corner.
S.Dress. 4 inches long. Red crocheted short-sleeved dress with red ribbons at sleeve cuffs.Small hat on a wire attached to the dress. Part of lower edge unraveling.
T. Vest and matching hat. Black/white wool yarn vest with crocheted red border. Matching peaked hat has red border around edge of brim.
U. Cape, matching muff and hat.. White fabric, fuzzy on one side. Cape is triangular with extension at collar to wrap around shoulders. 4 inches long at point. Muff is 2" x 1.5" tube lined with pink satin. 2-inch circular hat has pink ribbon around its edge and a red plastic flower on the front.
Birth & baptismal certificate on laid paper. Printed form with central textblock in German within a multiple line border. Infilled and decorated around textblock by Speyer; cross-legged angel at top, pelicans feeding young at sides and flowers at sides and bottom. Watercolors are red, blue, yellow, green and brown.
Infilled for Johannes, son of Valiendein (Valentine) and Eliesabetha (Elisabetha) Bohmer of Brecknock Township in Lancaster Co., born Dec. 13, 1788.
Georg Friederich Speyer (active 1774-1801) used this printed form produced c. 1789 by Barton & Johnson of Reading. See Notes.
General wear with numerous creases and wrinkles; one pronounced vertical centerline crease. Repaired tears, esp at left edge. All edges are ragged and uneven, esp. at right.
Conserved by CCAHA in 1989 (see report in file). Hinged into window mat & back mat. Relaced in its original frame using UF-3 Plexiglas and acid-free cardboard on reverse with a taped mylar dust shield.
Object ID
G.77.50.1
Notes
Printed form by Reading printers Thomas Barton and Benjamin Johnson, circa 1789 (see Klaus Stopp, The Printed Birth & Baptismal Certificates of the Pa. Germans, v. 4, p. 84). Speyer used this printed form for Johannes Bohmer who was born the previous year in1788.
Place of Origin
Lancaster County
Role
Artist
Credit
Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Flanders Smith, Heritage Center Collection
Light orange-brown brick with one dark face and consistent quality clay. Dark face shows much scratching, including very promnent I A one right side (or J A for John Andre, British officer). From fireplace of Caleb Cope house, 27 N Lime Street, Lancaster, where John Andre was a prisoner of war. Initials include those of of John Andre, Thomas Cope, and others.
Secretary, or desk and bookcase, Federal style, with extensive inlay, including "1804", flanked by the initials "I M" (or J M) on fall board of desk. Initials likely represent one of John H. A. Bomberger's ancestors/relatives. Made in 3 parts: a cornice and frieze, a slant-front desk with cubby holes and extensive inlay inside and out, and a bookcase with glazed doors using diamond design tracery, centered oval fan inlay and 1/4 fans at all 8 corners of doors. Desk has half fan inlay on skirt, running diamond banding just above and bellflower inlay at face of desk corners.
Henry T. Spangler, a member of the first graduating class from Ursinus, married college president John H. A. Bomberger's daughter Marion. Spangler later became the president of Ursinus, himself. Bomberger was born in Lancaster, graduated from Marshall College in Lancaster (later Franklin & Marshall). The secretary was a Bomberger family piece inherited by daughter Marion who willed it to her daughter "Aunt Doll" who resided at Ursinus until her death. Her brother George (Joel Spangler's grandfather ) inherited the piece and later willed it to Joel.
Provenance
Believed to have descended through John H. A. Bomberger's family of Lancaster County, through his parents or their parents. Documented only from J. H. A Bomberger on. From Bombergers, it descended through the Spangler family.
Finish darkened overall. Large pieces of veneer missing and lifting on skirt. Large veneered oval on fall board has cracks throughout. Two vertical cracks extend up from each side of desk base. Thin molding splitting on bookcase base at back left side. Section of wood with inlay missing at top of bookcase at back of right side.
Communion altar from Brickerville United Lutheran Church (originally Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church). Rectangular altar of painted softwood, panelled construction all four sides with pegged mortise and tenon joints. Small panels over large. Door in the back with a recessed panel and knob handle. Molding around base, the edge of the top, and framing the recessed panels.
Modification to altar in 1947 by Bob Helman (signature underneath when removed 10-17-00) was a long platform shelf covering the back 2/5 of the top, with holes at the back, including an electrical outlet. Entire altar has been given a new coat of paint, a light chocolate brown on top and white on the sides. The unpainted interior has one shelf with a vertical divider.
Altar has been used since circa 1800 to serve communion, using the Brickerville United Lutheran Church's ten-piece pewter communion service which is also in collections (P97.08.01-10).
Perhaps made by Emanuel Dyer of Manheim or Mr. Zartman of Brickerville.
Large crack on top, approx. 4" from front, running halfway across top. Recently painted. Some separation at moldings. Large hole bored in altar top (for electric wire) underneath the added platform, now removed. The modern base molding also removed. Repainted top with brown and attached molding at ends of top to secure plexi top. Paint removed on door.
Object ID
P.00.34.1
Place of Origin
Lancaster County
Credit
Heritage Center Collection, acquired through generosity of James Hale Steinman Foundation and V. Ronald Smith
Dressing table w/ mirror has Sheraton and Empire features, is made of solid mahogany and veneers with secondary woods of poplar and pine. This is a rare form.
Top has veneered half-column mirror frame supported by turned stiles which are set into top with a double tenon set at a backward cant. Mirror corners are blocks with turned bulls-eyes. Inner cove-molded fillet has vestiges of gilding.
Oblong table top comprised of solid 3/8" thick mahogany laminated onto 1/2" thick poplar, and secured to carcase with screws. A rounded molding is applied to front and ends.
Veneered carcase contains five dovetailed drawers faced with mahogany veneers: one long flanked by two short, over two long. The top drawers have a rounded profile while the two bottom drawers are cockbeaded. All drawers have replacement pulls of hollow, rounded brass knobs with a pierced floliate design. The two bottom drawers are fitted with locks; keyholes have brass insets but dark ghosting indicates missing escutcheons.
Baluster-turned legs extend from table top to floor. They support a low shelf 11 1/2" from floor. Shelf is shaped with recessed cutouts at front and ends.
Inscription: Interior of top central drawer has "J.F. MARKLEY/ CABINET MAKER/ Locust St./ COLUMBIA." stamped within an oval laurel wreath.
Also in collections is a J. F. Markley Empire chest of drawers (P77.02).
Provenance
Provenance: This dressing table was previously owned by an acquaintance of John J. Snyder, Michael Stinchcomb of ???, who recently changed his mind about using this piece in his bathroom when he realized the veneers would suffer. He consequently consigned it to sale at Pook and Pook.
Cracking in veneer on mirror. Numerous spots of corrosion on mirror. Moderate cracking in veneer on front and sides. Minor chips and scratches overall. Top has two cracks, one is 2" long at left and one is 6 1/2" long at right side. Bottom shelf has 6 1/2" crack at right side. Nails have been added to secure top to carcase; back of top is not secure due to stripped screws. Top left drawer has significant wood removed with rasp at front of sides.
Multicolored Vorschrift done by schoolmaster/fraktur artist Christian Strenge on rectangular laid paper. Bordered in a yellow band with red corners. German script text has an elaborately embellished large upper case letter "K" at upper left and multicolored floral design filling entire right side, surmounted by a distinctive yellow crested bird. Colors are red, yellow, blue and green. Modern frame.
Hand-printed in black ink above the letter "K" is the name of recipient, David Neff. Signed at the bottom by Strenge in German script: "Written in Hempfield Township in the year 1801 by Christian Strenge." Inscribed on reverse in script is "David Neff" in black ink.
The text begins with Psalm 95:1-4, "Kommt lasset(?) uns dem...," followed by two alphabets, the first in upper case and the second in lower case, and finally the numerals 1 - 14. (See translation on copy of nearly identical fraktur in file).
Provenance
Provenance: This Vorschrift was recently found in a book in the library of Sarah Stauffer on Lime Spring farm along the Marietta Pike. Consigned to sale at Conestoga Auction Co. and purchased 29 June 1998 with funds from V. Ronald Smith ($9,725) and the Donegal Chapter of the D.A.R. ($125).
John J. Snyder, Jr. researched Stauffer genealogy to discover a relationship to David Neff. See letters & charts in this file which explain the likelihood that the fraktur may have passed from Neff (probably when he went to Ohio, perhaps unknowingly hidden in a book, even as it was found recently) to his cousins, such as Anna Bear Lehman who is in the direct line of Stauffer descent. David Neff (1791-1866) was the son of Henry & Anna Oberholzer Neff. He would have been about 10 yrs. old when fraktur was made.
Generally good condition, although two folds show some breaking with tangential tears. Other minor tears and one small hole at right center. Some soiling, foxing and minor stains overall. Edges lifting in frame.
Conserved 1998 by Marilyn Kemp Weidner of Phila. Surfaced cleaned and losses repaired. Hinge-mounted on acid free mat and sealed in a package for framing. Mounted in modern black frame by Lancaster Galleries circa 2004.
Object ID
P.98.25.1
Notes
Christian Strenge was a Hessian soldier turned school teacher.
Place of Origin
East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.
Role
Artist
Credit
Gift of V. Ronald Smith and the Donegal Chapter of the D.A.R., Heritage Center Collection
Fraktur, religious text in German by Adam Siegel (died 1809, active c. 1790-1804), done on wove paper in pen & ink for Martin Bar, framed in old dark brown varnished poplar frame (not original to fraktur).
The name "Martin Bar" fills the upper half in large fraktur-style lettering, illuminated with scrolling filigree. Included in the scrolling are two cartoonish heart-shaped faces with stubbled hair and shaded beards. Underneath name are six lines of religious text in German script, ending with the last line: "Geschrieben von mir ADS d(en) 28ten Mertz 1802."
Double-line border at top and left side only. Last word of fourth line of text appears to have been trimmed. Fraktur thus appears to have been trimmed at right and bottom. Reverse has pencil scribbles and one in ink.
Appears to have been trimmed at right side and bottom. Scattered dark stains, pinholes along fold lines, slightly larger holes at "i" in "Martin" and within the "B" of "Bar." Liquid stain of 1/2" size at center and one at right side at text. A tear 3/4"-long at right edge above center.
Replaced heavy paper backing used by vendors with acid-free matboard, 11/05.
Object ID
P.05.04.6
Notes
Papers for Birth Dayes notes that Siegel immigrated to America in 1774 and was a schoolmaster in Lancaster Co, perhaps in the Strasburg area. Although he made fraktur for Mennonites, he was not Mennonite. His work is usually not watercolored.
Paper included with purchase has the text rewritten in German script with an English translation below (see file). This person translates the recipient's name as Martin Biehr, although it is normally seen elsewhere as "Bare" or "Bear". Ellis & Evans gives numerous references to the name Martin Bare, usually found in the townships of Conestoga, East Lampeter and Upper Leacock.
Possible Bar/Bare family connections: See also a birth record for Andreas Bar (Andrew Bear) P.80.136 by an unknown scrivener. This Andreas/Andrew was the youngest son of Andrew Bear and wife Christina Heighley. A desk-and-bookcase P.77.34 has inscription of Adam Bare on its drawer. His father John Bear an older brother of Andreas. Relation of these Bears/Bares to Martin is unknown. Jane Evans Best (see her letter re: Bear family in file P80.136) would be a good source of help.
Place of Origin
Lancaster County
Credit
Gift of Irene N. Walsh, Heritage Center Collection
Mennonite apron of bleached, plain-weave cotton and black two-ply silk embroidery. Apron is gathered at the top and sewn onto a waist band with a commercial tape string at each end.
At top center is a dark brown cross-stitched design of a central star flower on triangle base, surrounded by seven stars or crosses. The separated initials "M S" flank this design and large crosses flank initials. Three different embroidered borders of black silk combine with drawnwork at bottom above a one-inch self-fringe secured with black stitches.
Provenance
Purchased by donor from the Rev. Fred Weiser in 1997. Weiser notes there are about 15 aprons known; see article in Der Regebogge written "some years ago."
Staining around embroidered design and initials from bleeding embroidery, near top. Age discoloration with small stains overall. Stains along sides. Several thread "pulls". Areas of missing embroidery on three crosses at bottom. Small hole at lower right of design.
Conserved Nov. 1997 by Dorothy McCoach of Bethlehem, PA
Object ID
G.97.39.9
Place of Origin
Lancaster County
Credit
Gift of Hampton Randolph, Sr., Heritage Center Collection
Pocket of bleached plain weave linen, embroidered with pink and blue cotton thread, brown two-ply silk thread and red, pink, yellow, white, and brown handspun wool.
Front is two panels joined across the midline with needlelace; the back is two panels seamed in the selvage (9" x 18" and 14.5" x 23.5"). The pocket is open at the left side to a depth of 11.5". The pocket, once bound with cream silk twill ribbon, has little ribbon remaining except at the right side of the waist; a tuft of silk ribbon stitched to the right side may be the remains of the tie.
The design centers larger motifs and uses others in a mirror image fashion. The upper portion is ornamented with a stylized heart containing initials flanked by pairs of flower blossoms, flowering plants in pots, and a filled diamond at the top center. The signature and date lie below the mid-line row of needlelace surmounting a very stylized flowering tree flanked by flower arrangements in baskets. The entire piece has a straight line border with inwardly turned sprigs.
Cross-stitched in upper section: "M P"; and in bottom half: "Maria Peterin, 1801."
Tandy & Charles Hersh note this is one of the largest pockets found.
Made by Maria Peter(s), Oley Valley, Berks County.
Provenance
Purchased by donor from Fred Weiser in 1997.
See "Samplers of the Pa Germans" by Tandy & Charles Hersh, p. 216.
Conserved Nov. 1997 by Dorothy McCoach of Bethlehem, PA.
Age discoloration overall. Pink and blue cotton embroidery appears to be intact, but the wool and silk threads are strongly deteriorated, with many losses. Cream colored silk twill ribbon is lost except for a small portion at the right side of the waist.
Blue thread border around entire piece has severe losses.
Hole at upper right corner.
Object ID
G.97.39.10
Place of Origin
Berks County, Pennsylvania
Credit
Gift of Hampton Randolph, Sr., Heritage Center Collection
Framed hand towel. One large embroidered panel with pelicans. Two-inch panel of loose weave linen added to bottom,decorated with wide band of red cotton with sawtooth edges . Main panel is bleached plain weave linen. Embroidered decoration is done in red cotton, now faded to dark pink.
Panel is 13" high x 16.5" wide, with a symmetrical design except for the initials and date. Embroidered stylized heart at top center with two interior stars and smaller interior heart. At upper corners of panel are large flowers above a decorated branch, under which are large, facing pelicans, each feeding 2 young birds with blood from their pierced breast. At bottom is a small heart motif flanked by facing birds. To the right of this motif is "1808" and to the left is "A C" and "W I".
Conserved Nov. 1997 by Dorothy McCoach of Bethlehem, PA.
Yellowish stains around edges. Discoloration above initials. Pencil marks in upper right corner. Darned diamond pattern in bottom panel has a few minor "pulls". Bottom extension detaching at two points.
Mounted in frame by Lancaster Galleries.
Object ID
G.97.39.2
Credit
Gift of Hampton Randolph, Sr., Heritage Center Collection
