Creamware sugar bowl has apple shaped body with a flaring foot ring and rim. Both lid and bowl are decorated by hand with wide bands of blue and thin rings of red. Sides of bowl have blue flower alternating with smaller leaf sprigs. Lid has low dome topped with a knob resembling a pepperment life saver. Three leaf sprigs spaced around the knob on dome.
Paper sticker on bottom has pencil inscription: "no./ ace/ no".
Reportedly used by donor's great-great-grandmother, Sally, wife of Andrew Ellicott.
A 3 1/2" long section of rim is broken off. One broken piece saved in bowl. Extremely strong brown stain covers most of bowl except for several patches. Same stains sprinkled around bottom of lid. Glazing imperfections such as on top of lid. A 1 3/4" long hairline crack extends up side from base. Dark soil adhering to bottom of foot ring. Bowl has some wear around shoulder.
Tapered mahogany wooden cane with smooth dark finish. One and three quarter inch long golden brass cap/band at top of cane is engraved with a man's profile, President G. Cleveland, on top. 2.125 inch wide brass ferrule on bottom above .75 inch steel tip.
On side written longitudinally: Carried and presented to the L.C.H.S. by George W. Hensel, Jr. 1943.
Engraved horizontally: From Grover Cleveland to W.U. Hensel Easter Time 1893.
Engraving from Hensel to LCHS was a later engraving.
Wood walking stick or cane with silver tip and cap. Four panels with text alternate with four panels decorated with ornate leaves. 1.5 in metal band nailed on at the botton. One nail missing.
cap is engraved: "By the Union Fire Co. / No. 1 Lancaster PA / Presented to Rev. A. H. Shertz / Feb. 25th, 1865 "
Wooden cane with metal tip, vine like pattern, accompanying tag reads, "Thornwood stick - silver inlay, formerly property of Walter Kieffer, grandfatther of Donald" Round branch with distinctive bark. Metal cylinder around lower end. Wooden peg exposed may indicate a missing piece at the tip. At 8.5 inches from teh top ar 5 parallel and wavy lines of wire flattened and attached diagonally, following the curvature of the wood.
Single piece of wood forms smooth 35 in cane with carved face whose hair becomes four long jointed appendages taht end in talons or claws gripping a head whose upward looking moustaches face's jaw is the tapered end of the curved handle. Lower tip is banded (.75 in W) and bottom is exposed wood. Pupils on cane face are tiny holes/punctures. On handle face, pupils are less deep with black in on them.
Letters carved into cane read KepKypa, indicating that object is from the Holy Land. Attached tag reads, "Made of wood from mount of olives in Holy Land, head of Christ and name, "Kieffer" carved by an armenian friend of Walter Kieffer (Grandfather of Donald K.)"
Natural finish and shaped wooden walking stick or cane. Relatively straight wood branch with knots. Stick is bark-free and varnished. About 1 inch diameter with last inch tapered to a .5 inch tip. Bottom varnish has worn off.
Said to be the cane of Samuel Evans (1823-1908); originally the property of John Wright, Columbia, PA.
Black oil painted walking stick with metal tip and embellished gold crown. Decorative 2 inch long metal button's top engraved. Smoothly finished with dark, ebony like color. At tip, a 1 inch metal band and a .25 inch metal bottom .5 inch diameter. Stick on label reads: This cane belonged to the father of W. W. Griest, US Congressman for whom Griest building was named. Anne Griest Klaus great grand-daughter.
Engraving on top of crown reads, "June 17. / 182- 1894 / Edward Griest / Lancaster, PA. / From his children / and / grandchildren."
White, pink, and gold pierced bowl compote with pink band surrounded by gold on base from the Shreiner family. "S" in gold script on base. Gold paint traces basket shape made by piercings in bowl. Florets on basket where gold lines intersect. Composed of three pieces with screw holding them together, through stem.
Provenance
Descent within Shreiner family to donor. Mueller is related to Shreiner family through his maternal grandmother Mary Elizabeth Cochran (Mrs. Louis B. Sprecher). Her mother was Alma C. Shreiner (1855-1940) , Mrs. Henry B. Cochran. Alma's father was Henry Michael Shreiner (1832-1919), a watchmaker/jeweler.
