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History: Collection
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The Wake County Committee of the Colonial Dames purchased the Joel Lane house in 1927. When the mortgage was retired in 1932, the Dames began purchasing items for the house. Over the years different County Committees of the Colonial Dames and individuals have made gifts to the house. From its purchase until its major restoration, the house had been used for meetings and rented to individuals who lived in it. When the house was opened as the Joel Lane Museum House in 1976, it was furnished and fitted out with items appropriate to the late eighteenth-century era.
Unfortunately only a few items in the house have a connection to Joel Lane, as all of his personal property was dispersed and the house rented following his death. We do have an inventory of his personal possessions, including a list of the people he enslaved, which was taken at the time of his death. We also have a list of items sold at the estate sale. Both lists are invaluable in identifying objects that supported family and plantation life in 1795.
Click here to see the inventory and sale lists.
Click here to read Joel Lane’s will.
Catesby Prints
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Labeled Armchair
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Lane Windsor Armchair
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Mosaic Pin or Brooch
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Cradle
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Platter with Blue Border
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Pewter Plate
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Walnut Table with Drawer
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Tin Tray
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Three Butter Pats with Blue Edge
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Push-Button Candlestick
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Metal Andirons
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Metal Trivet
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Pair of Push Button Candlesticks
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Silver Tablespoon
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Child’s Chair
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Oval Iron Skillet
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Large Iron Hanging Pot
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Basket
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Black Tin Lantern
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Crock
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Garden Plan
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China Press
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Pair Brass Candlesticks
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Hinsdale Chest
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Walnut Side Table
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Work Table
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Brass Andirons
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Windsor Chair
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Looking Glass
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Windsor Armchair
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Walnut Tripod Candlestand
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Cherry Chippendale Chest
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Linsey-Woolsey Coverlet
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Cherry Four Poster Bed
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Green Painted Ladderback Chair
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Queen Anne Mirror
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Brass Shaker
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Two Export Tea Bowls (Saucers)
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Pembroke Table
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Penny Foot Andirons
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English Delft Bowl
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Two Wedgewood Creamware Plates
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Pair of Creamware Compotes
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Creamware Orange Bowl
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Bell Metal Andirons
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Creamware Tazza
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Brass Boudoir Candlestick
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Export Tea Set
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Silk Scarf
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Pair Fluted Candlesticks
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Smoke Lamp
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Spongeware Plate
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Brass Andirons with Flame Finial
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Granddaughter’s Plate
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Brown Leather Box
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Map of USA - 1795
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White Hand-Woven Bedspread
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Mahogany Tester Bed
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Dressing Mirror
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Pair Delft Vases
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Delft Charger - Dutch
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Brass Candlestick
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Rush Basket
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Four Finger Vases (Two Pairs)
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Clay Pipe
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Black Windsor Chair
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Brass and Wire Fireplace Fender
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American Silver Tablespoon
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Delft Inkwell
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Creamware Basket
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Creamware Sweet Dish
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Dutch Brass Tobacco Box
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Salt Glazed Plate
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Tobacco Packer
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Flax Comb Hockle
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Iron Fire Tongs
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Liverpool Delft Tankard
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Pair Brass Sconces
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Flax Spinning Wheel
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Brass Wick Trimmers and Tray
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Black Wrought Iron Trivet
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Glass Decanter
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Eight Glass Wine Flutes
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Catesby - Cacao Print
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Pair Brass Sconces with Hurricane Globes
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Mahogany Tea Caddy
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The Lives of the English Poets
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The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes
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Coin Silver Serving Spoon
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Pine Blanket Chest
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Walnut Chest
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Brass Candlestick of Flemish Origin
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Chinese Export Tea Saucer
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Blue and White Woven Spread
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Bed Rope Tightener
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Pair Push-Up Candlesticks
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Corner Cupboard
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Five Canton 9” Plates
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Japanese Round Tea Pot
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18th-Century Bed
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Mahogany Chippendale Side Chair
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Cupboard
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Polychrome Rotterdam Delft Plate
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Leeds Creamware Oval Dish
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White Quilt with Crewel Border
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Chinese Export China
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Brass Copper Pot
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Iron Fork
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Black Metal Tongs
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Ladder Back Chair
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Blue and White Checked Coverlet
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William Lane Bible
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Hepplewhite Pembroke Table
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Copper Kettle
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Bed Draperies
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Brass Wick Trimmers
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Pair of Cherry Chippendale Chairs
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Hand Mirror
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Pewter Tankard 1776
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Pewter Quart Tankard - F. Wells
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Hanging Griddle
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Wooden Ink Sander and Sand
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Candle Mold
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Wrought Iron Candle Holder
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Bed Warmer
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Wooden Ink Sander
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Pewter Plate #1
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Pewter Plate #2
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Pewter Plate #3
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Pewter Plate #4
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Pewter Porringer
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Spatula
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Iron Ladle with Hook
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Dough Trough
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Reproduction Tricorne Hat
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Checkerboard and Pieces
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Wool and Linen Coverlet
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Washstand
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Pewter Basin
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Walking Wheel
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Wooden Dough Bowl
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Fringed Towel
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Fringed Tablecloth
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Chamber Pots
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Pair Loop Back Windsor Chairs
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Canton Tureen - No Top
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Three Large Canton Plates
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Canton Punch Bowl
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Large Scalloped Edge Punch Bowl
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Canton Ginger Jar
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Ten Small Canton Dessert Plates
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Canton Platter 1
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Canton Platter 2
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Canton Sauce Boat
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Small Diamond-Shaped Canton Covered Dish
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Case Clock
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Canton Vegetable Dish
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Canton Vegetable Dish
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Canton Oval Platter
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Large Canton Tea Pot
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Canton Waste Bowl
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Workman’s Bed
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Floor Cloths
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Flip Glass
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Creamware Plate
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Pearl Creamware Oval Basket
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English Delft Plate
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Four Bone-Handled Knives & Four Forks
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Two Whale Oil Lamps
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Set of Six Creamware Plates
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Salt-Glazed Stoneware Dish (Shape of Leaf)
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18th-Century Silver Knife
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Catesby Four Fruit Prints
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Staffordshire Urn
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Pine Table
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Trammel
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Wooden Rolling Pin
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Two Wooden Pestles
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Wooden Mallet
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Vine Barrel
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Red Dirt Dish
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Cotton Basket
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Ceramic Jug
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Small Iron Hanging Pot
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Brass Copper Pot
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Egg Basket
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Wafer Iron
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Large Greenish Jug
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Pair of Walnut Chippendale Chairs
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New Hall Butterfly Tea Pot
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Red Dirt Bowl
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Silver Punch Ladle
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American Pewter Mug by Danforth of Conn.
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English Salt-Glazed Stoneware Sauce Boat
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English Oak Bible Box
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Ofiicer’s Cutaway Coat and Tri-Corn Hat
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Hand-Forged Iron Kitchen Hook
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George II / British Half Penny
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Gingerbread Mold
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Cherry Hepplewhite Dressing Stand
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English Pewter Basin
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Single Cruzie
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Spider Pan
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Two Betty Lamps with Handles
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Continental Currency
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Frying Pan
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Laundry Paddle
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Single Cruzie Lamp
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Frying Pan
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Spider Pan
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Five Dollar Note
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Pewter Pitcher
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New Hall Tea Cup and Saucer
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Fireplace Fork
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Footed Fireplace Fork
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Footed Fireplace Trivet
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Fireplace Trammel
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Fireplace Trammel
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Wooden Paddle
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Windsor Chair
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Six Windsor Chairs
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Wooden Pestle
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Sauceboat
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Catesby Print - Ground Squirrel
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Catesby Print - Black Squirrel
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