Winter Associates, Inc.

Pilgrim Century Document Box in the John Moore Shop Tradition, Windsor CT- $10,000 - $15,000 ESTIMATE

Pilgrim century document box, John Moore Shop Tradition, Windsor, Connecticut, 1680 – 1710, oak and yellow pine, carved front panel with “Foliated Vine” design and clear vertical scribe lines, likely original painted finish in red to hinged lid and black to foot, interior with squared notch to for folding support (not present), wear consistent with age and use included six added screws to base, missing arm support, split to exterior rear edge molding, sides lightly refinished, lock and escutcheon old replacements, detailed gallery observations available upon request, 8 ½” h. x 26 ¾” w. x 15 ½” d. [PROVENANCE: Descended in a Hartford, CT area family home for two known generations.][LITERATURE: “The Woodworkers of Windsor”, Joshua W. Lane and Donald P. White III, Exhibition Catalog, 2003, pgs. 12-18, Historic Deerfield, Inc. Deerfield, Massachusetts; “Fashioning Furniture and Framing Community: Woodworkers and the Rise of a Connecticut River Valley”, Joshua W. Lane and Donald P. White III, American Furniture, Milwaukee, Wi: Chipstone Foundation,2005, ed Luke Beckerdite, pgs. 179-191; “Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720”, Wallace Nutting, Framingham, MA: Old America Co. 1924, p.171, no.139, etc.]