The Country Lady Antiques : Tou
The two of us built this little arbor in our front yard out of birch saplings, intertwined at the top. There are flowering Clematis vines climbing up it. We will post photos later in the summer, showing the vines' progress in covering the arbor!
Our 18th century cape is locally known as the " the mill house".
This is a photo of the mill just a few doors down from our house.
It was built in 1784.
THE TAPROOM
We are now selling from our website and shows, and so were very happy to close down the shop and have our room back! We are currently in the process of re-habbing it into a 17thc. style taproom. We are building a period correct cage bar in this room. Below are some photos showing what we have done in the room so far. MOST OF THE FUNITURE CURRENTLY DISPLAYED IN THE ROOM IS FOR SALE. When the cage bar is finished, we will post photos of our completed "labor of love". We thank our customers and friends who have encouraged us, and are anxiously awaiting seeing the fruits of our efforts, and graciously expressed interest!
The picture above shows where the cage bar is going to be!
On this wall of our 'taproom', we installed a board the full length of the wall, with rosehead nails for hooks, and hung some of our 'taprooom-appropriate' reenactment clothing and kit there!
The butt'ry, which is off the taproom.
These photographs of my butt'ry show the late 17th or early 18th century hand hewn wood sink. Even it's little drain is a hollowed out piece of branch!
Our best piece is this completely untouched AMERICAN, 17th century blanket box. It has initials, and the date 1678 on the front! It was made in Rowley, Massachusettes in 1678 for a Nelson, and decended in an unbroken line in the Nelson family---my husband's aunt. It went from Rowley, to Lincoln, Mass., in about 1700, and stayed there in an 18thc. house for 300 years!
Here is Mary at the Battle of Lexington-Concord reenactment, April 2008. She is sitting on a rock marking the site of the Josiah Nelson house in Lincoln, Mass. This is the Nelson family in which our wonderful 1678 blanket box decended. Josiah built his home around 1750. A cellar hole, and commemorative plaque are all that remain now. It was amazing for us to sit at the spot where our chest was for a good portion of the 18th century! The photo below shows Adam at the same spot.
These next few photos are of our latest find---a very rare, all original 17th c. chair-table. It was made in Yorkshire, England in the mid-1600's, and probably lived in the cottage of a Dutch born weaver there, over 300 years ago!
The setee is done in a wonderful, Jacobean hand embroidered wool crewel.
Everyone agrees that this was the find of the decade! We recently aquired this phenomenal English bed, dated 1686! The initials carved on the headboard are “TMA”. My husband said we were meant to have it, because that meant “To Mary and Adam”!!
Here are close-ups of the headboard and panelled canopy of the bed. Note the initials and the 1686 date.
End of the day in our yard.
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