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Backstool

Object number

RIF1075

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1740–60

Current location

Gary R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc.

Geography

Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); maple (secondary)

Marks

None

Inscriptions

"VI," incised, on front seat rail rabbet

Style

Queen Anne

Provenance

By descent in the Maynard and Hazard families, Rhode Island; sold to Harry Arons; sold to David Stockwell (1907–1996), Wilmington, Delaware, by 1981. Gary R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc., Sharon, Massachusetts, 2018

Associated names

Maynard family
Hazard Family
Harry Arons
David Stockwell

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Bibliography

David Stockwell, Inc., "Living with Antiques: Log Folly in Delaware," Antiques 119, no. 5 (May 1981): 1103, ill.