Seven Assorted Early Articles

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Seven Assorted Early Articles, America, early 19th century, a small Liverpool pottery pitcher with transfer decoration depicting THE PLOUGHMAN TURNED SAILOR and THE LUCKY ESCAPE or PLOUGHMAN'S RETURN; a stencil and smoke-decorated wood, brass, and leather bellows; a blown-molded blue-green glass medicine bottle with embossed lettering "FROM THE LABORATORY OF W. MERCHANT CHEMIST LOCKPORT N.Y."; an 1804 printed Harvard University Order of Exercise for Commencement broadside, printed at the University Press, by W. Hilliard; a mother-of-pearl inlaid mahogany lap desk, the cover centered with a basket of fruit motif; a leather fire bucket with later taupe paint; and a 3 x 2 3/8 in. framed profile portrait engraving on paper of Thomas Jefferson, (imperfections),ht. 4 1/4-19 in.
Estimate $400-600

Liverpool pitcher-1/2 in. rim chip w/ associated 1 in. hairline
bellows-minor paint losses
glass bottle- good condition
Harvard broadside-
lap desk-- one hinge missing ,shrinkage cracks to lid,
fire bucket- later paint
Jefferson engraving portrait-image/ink smudged.

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