Leather Fire Bucket

Description:

Leather Fire Bucket, Providence, Rhode Island, 19th century, the front inscribed in white paint "STEPHEN RANDALL/No. 4/1786 PROV.," with braided leather handle, ht. 11 in.

Literature: Illustrated and described in George C. Neumann, Early American Country Furnishings, (L-W Book Sales, 1996),p. 222, fig. 977.
The George C. Neumann Collection
Estimate $200-250

Edge binding has losses, handle and handle attachment leather are replacements.


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