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| Indigenous American Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, flat bottom, Indigenous American creation, made of braided sweetgrass and natural and green flat splint fiber, with a blue card inside reading "(printed) Smart Studio Antiques, Maine Street, Northeast Harbor Maine, 276-5152, (handwritten) Penobscot Indian Sweetgrass Basket, late 1800s", and on the back of the card "$145" | ||
| Glass souvenir basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Glass souvenir basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bowl, souvenir, white glass miniature Clam Broth Basket with red letters "SOUVENIR OF Cranberry Isles Maine"; impressed into glass on inside bottom: PAT'D; gold colored handle and rim; with receipt from Pine Bough "Select Antiques, Northeast Harbor" 13 July '04, and note from them "Prob. orig. sold NEH ca. 1920s" | |||
| Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basket and lid, very small barrel shaped, flat bottom, made of braided sweetgrass or twine, and perhaps ash strips, with a blue card inside, probably from Smart Studio, reading "Antique Penobscot Indian Sweetgrass Basket, late 1800s, $55". This may be one of several Indigenous American basketry items collected by Mary E. Shaw (Mrs. Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs. Shaw visit 9/25/14). [show more] | ||
| Indigenous American Crafted Sweetgrass Braids Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American Crafted Sweetgrass Braids Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Basketry, Collection of 2 Indigenous American Indian crafted sweetgrass braids, one (25" L x 0.5" W) decorated with colorful yarn, likely bought at the Abbe Museum by Wini Smart a few years after 2000, the other (39" L x 0.5" W) tied with yellow yarn; both intended to waft a sweet smell into a room | |||
| Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pottery, Collection of 3 clay pieces made on GCI by Janet Roberts, showing how local indigenous groups, might have made a cooking pot; a) proto-bottom showing the coiling of clay rope to form a surface, 2.5" diam; b) continuing spiraling the clay rope upwards to make a wall, and a part cut away to better show the construction, 3.5" diam x 2" H; c) smoothed, decorated, and fired final pot with incised chevrons near the mouth, raked on the body, also net-like impresses on the body, and a rounded bottom, 5.5" L, 4.25" diam, 0.5" thick [show more] | |||
| Cranberry Island General Store bags Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Island General Store bags Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Artifact, 1031a-b. (a) and (b) are two types of paper trash bags bought at the old Cranberry Island General Store | |||
| Tea Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Tea Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Red metal tea tin with rope pattern and circular medallion on front with a woman's profile and a leaf. | ||||
| "Charles Biele" Coffee Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  "Charles Biele" Coffee Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Metal coffee tin from the Charles Biele Coffee Company. On front and back: "Cafe Savoy Coffee" with the Charles Biele logo. Side reads: "Cafe Savoy is a blend of very choice fine coffee specially imported by me for this brand only, Always uniform in quality and never failes to please. Charles Biele New York". | ||
| Bar Harbor Bank cloth deposit bag Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor Bank cloth deposit bag Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Cloth bank deposit bag for the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust company. Provenance and significance of this unknown. | ||||
| Lid for Beach Cliff Sardines in Water Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Lid for Beach Cliff Sardines in Water Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Lid for Beach Cliff Sardines in Water | ||||
| "Gold Crisp Shortening" Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  "Gold Crisp Shortening" Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Large yellow metal tin with lid made by Goren's. Once contained gold crisp shortening. | |||
| "Dill's Best" Tobacco Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  "Dill's Best" Tobacco Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Yellow tobacco tin with illustration of woman in a red dress on top cover. Top cover reads: "Sliced Cut Plug. Dill's Best Smoking Tobacco J.G. Dill Co. Richmond, VA., U.S.A." | ||
| "Dill's Best' Tobacco Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  "Dill's Best' Tobacco Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Yellow tobacco tin with illustration of woman in a red dress on top cover. Top cover reads: "Sliced Cut Plug. Dill's Best Smoking Tobacco J.G. Dill Co. Richmond, VA., U.S.A." | ||
| "Dill's Best" Tobacco Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  "Dill's Best" Tobacco Tin Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Yellow tobacco tin with illustration of woman in a red dress on top cover. Top cover reads: "Sliced Cut Plug. Dill's Best Smoking Tobacco J.G. Dill Co. Richmond, VA, U.S.A." | ||
| Stereocard Basket Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Stereocard Basket Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Natural wood finish on hand carved wood. Carved piece in center separates two sides. | ||||
| Lid for Beach Ciff Sardines in Mustard Sauce Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Lid for Beach Ciff Sardines in Mustard Sauce Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Lid for Beach Cliff Sardines in Mustard Sauce | ||||
| Tray Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Tray Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Rectangular tray with black background of white flowers and green leaves, light blue forget-me-nots. Large flowers outlined in red or yellow with yellow centers. Paint chipped. | ||||
| Basket Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|  Basket Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Bowl shaped. Woven wood with wood handle. Diamonds inside diamond pattern on each side where handle joins basket. Nails attach handle. | |||||
| Bottle in Stand Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Basket Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|  Basket Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Tiny oval basket with rings on each side for handles. Green woven into band around middle. Weave around top damaged. | |||||
| Box Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|  Box Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Colorful flowered paper pasted on sides and top. Contains thread and beads. | |||||
| Box Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|  Box Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Round box with checkerboard pattern on top. Sides striped green, maroon and yellow. Contains button and shoe button. Also contains “Erin Go Bragh” pin. Provenance not known. Deed of gift not found. | |||||
| Bowl Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|  Bowl Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Wooden bowl with painted scene of rocky coast, clouds, sky, sea and sloop. Wood contracted with age so that bowl in now oval. Some stains. One chip on surface of painting. Bottom rough. Donor info - from Fred Wiggin house in Town Hill. | |||||
| Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Brown glass, square, 1 quart size. Raised decoration of hops. Marked, “Hops” and “1872”. Also marked, “Bitters” and Doyels Hops”. Donor info - found in foundations of barn at donor’s home in Berry Cove, Lamoine. | ||||
| Can for Beach Cliff Fish Steaks in Louisiana Hot Sauce Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Can for Beach Cliff Fish Steaks in Louisiana Hot Sauce Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Can for Beach Cliff Fish Steaks (Bite Size Herring) in Louisiana Hot Sauce |