Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2608MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: August 11, 2012 10:00AM
Description:
Framed Shaker-related Newspaper and Indenture,American Socialist, a periodical from Oneida, New York, dated February 21, 1878, picturing "The Shaker Village at Mt. Lebanon," the village portrayed in a lithograph on the front page of the paper, with a brief comment on state of the country's affairs, and how we could learn from the Shakers, sight size 15 1/2 x 11 1/2, in a molded wood frame; a sealed indenture dated August 1, 1838, for five-year-old Sophia Douglas, to consent to be raised by the Shaker community at New Lebanon, New York, until she is of age [18], sight size 14 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Estimate $200-250