Antique Cooking Fork

 

Photography by Jan Riser.

Antique Monumental Paint Decorated Pantry Box

 

A extra large size storage box with floral and geometric stencil decoration. This huge box survives in original paint and very good condition with one small repair to lid. Charming decoration.

Ohio

Circa 1830

Painted pine

H: 13”; 20” diameter

Copy and photography from Kelly Kinzly Antiques here.

Seen in Main Antique Digest.

Bruce Horne Collection: Horn Bowl

 

This is one of the antique horn pieces that will be for sale from the Bruce Horne Collection.

Photography by Jan Riser.

Antique Leather Trunk Reimagined by Steven Lalioff with Help from Tom Connin

I just finished this. It only took me a decade Since the idea entered my head. Over the years, I’ve collected dozens of 18th and 19th century leather bound trunks ...some near perfect, others just fragments for study. Originally made in Vermont, this trunk dated to 1828, based upon what remained of the newspaper lining. The leather had long turned to dust but the wood, lock and handles were sound. I decided to do something unique with the “restoration”. I called upon my dear friend Tom Connin to paint a buffalo robe in the manor of the Sioux. “Just paint fragments...don’t worry about orientation, I want it to look like someone cut up a damaged robe”, I told him. I then used those large swatches to re-leather the trunk. My idea being, it should look like something William Clark or George Catlin might have commissioned a trunk maker to do in order to preserve damaged robes that they collected among the Western Tribes in the 1830’s.

Copy and photography by Steven Lalioff.