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Group Of 10 Original Shaker Items

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Books & Manuscripts Start Price:900.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD
Group Of 10 Original Shaker Items
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Group of 10 original Shaker items, including items owned by one of the last Canterbury Shakers. SISTER BERTHA LILLIAN PHELPS .(1876-1973), the spiritual center of the Canterbury Shaker Village in its later years. Lot includes 4 photographs/portraits: 1- black & white framed glossy of Sister Lillian Phelps wearing her bonnet and coat (8 x 10) 2- 1913 salt print of Elder E. Sterling (2 ½ x 3 ½) 3- Shaker “CDV”, a photographic calling card. Half of this maroon card bears the printed name of the pictured individual, “Mary P Vance.”(1845-1892) 4- miniature photograph albumen image of Shaker brother Giles Avery. (1 ½” x 2”) 5- Sister Lillian Phelps pine clothes hanger, (14”) 6-Shaker Tin Box shaped like a trunk. A yellow label attached to bottom reads “...made by the Shakers, Enfield, Conn. Printed to Charles Thompson by the Dwight Moody Family of West Springfield, Mass, 1961” 7-Shaker wood box (3 ¼” high, 9” long, 6” wide) with 4 removable, round, metal feet. Inside are portions of a sewing kit 8- Lot of 14 yellow Medicinal “Tumblers” 9-Small printed pamphlet, “Who are the Shakers,” (printed 1959) 10-Original manuscript 68 page song book, “Choice Selections – L.E. Phelps.” This is a collection of Shaker Poetry and Hymnals gathered by Sister Lillian herself. Inside the front & rear covers are pasted newspaper clippings (Circa1917) of other selections Sister Phelps saw fit to include. One of the last Shaker songs to be ever written was composed by Sister Lillian Phelps at Canterbury in 1914. The lasted printed Shaker hymnal was published at Canterbury, New Hampshire in 1908 and was entitled, “A Shaker Hymnal.” Since then only a few Shaker songs have been written. One of these was penned by Sister Phelps as late as 1959. Founded by a woman, Mother Ann Lee(s) (1736-1784), the Shakers have always believed in the “equality of the sexes in all departments of life.” America’s last Shaker community, the Canterbury Shaker Village, in Canterbury, New Hampshire, was in its twilight at the time of Sister Phelps’ death. Phelps’ few possessions are sterling examples of Shaker art at its finest.
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