Two Blown Cobalt and Colorless Glass Dome String Dispensers

Description:

Two Blown Cobalt and Colorless Glass Dome String Dispensers, 19th century, with applied transparent cobalt blue bands on top and bottom rim, (base chips),ht. 4 5/8, 5 1/2, dia. 5 3/8, 5 in., respectively.

These string dispensers were reportedly used in a Shaker herb or medicinal products shop but may also have been used in a community's trustee's office, where worldly visitors could buy Shaker products, and the string used to tie up the packages.

Estimate $200-300

Both have fairly unobtrusive chips around base.


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