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possibly modern quilt of bright green edges and multi color flowers. Part of our Orphans collection that was discovered this March during our Piecing together History event. 2023

Cotton material. peach triangles, 9 squares with 4 squares around the center.

Red and white cotton fibers with pictures of historic homes and buildings of Knoxville. Knoxville Courthouse in center, with Knoxville Tennessee, founded 1791 in a banner below.

This tea tray is mahogany and circa 1850-1870. With its three feet, screws, and shell-like handles it can be given a date of manufacture of the second half of the nineteenth century. Handles are carved with large flutes. The rim is scalloped and…

This walnut tea table is English and has an oak block under the tilt top. Queen Anne style with pad feet. In 1773 the Charleston SC cabinet maker Thomas Elfe's shop charged L 2.5 for a "new pillar (shaft) to a tea table". Although this tea table or…

This walnut card table is circa 1830. It is a white pine bottom and may have been make in the Tennessee area. The table is an unsophisticated version of a city example. The apron is too deep. The top turns to reveal an inner compartment for…

This circa 1820-1830 work table, as tables of this type were known, is called by a general term which might be subdivided into sewing, writing and other functions. This specific example is probably a Tennessee example in the taste of New York,…

This table is circa 1820 and could be an end to a dining table. They have been called compass tables and "a side board rounding to fit the other (square table)". This could have been made as a "pier table" or "one to fit between two windows". At…

This dining table is mahogany and circa 1810-20 (1840) It is a sectional table of mahogany with tulip poplar as a secondary wood. The lower front of the apron is inlaid with a darker wood. The table has been rebuilt somewhat underneath, and some…