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SHEET MUSIC

Collection of approximately 40 pieces of sheet music, gathered from many different Hingham Estates, late 1800's to early 1900's, such as Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor "Dapper Dan" (black face), "Yes We have No Bananas", The Cotton Club, and "Seventy Negro Spirituals" from Gov. John D. Longs Library. 

CHICKEN WEATHERVANE

Carved pine board with painted features, "Elwin Fearing (1883-1968?), So. Pleasant St. Hingham", c. 1940, shows normal wear, 14" h, 21" l.   

RARE CHILD'S WOODEN SCOOTER

Early 20th c., carved wood wheels, originally from the Charles Andrew( 1851) & later Charles Lane house (1883), later found in attic. Lane's house was the west end of Rev. John Norton House  abutting Bank Ave. Hingham" (JPR), in good condition, 32" h, 31" l. 

THREE ARCHITECTURAL METAL REFINEMENTS

Gilded copper arrow weathervane, "from S. Randall Lincoln who acquired it from Benj. Lincoln property, North St" (JPR); Copper roof finial with spire top, 17" h; Copper lightning rod, "Haleys comet?", "acquired by S. Randall Lincoln from Capt. Seth Stowers Hersey & John Hersey Home, Main St. So. Hingham" (JPR). 

PAINT AND PAINTER'S TOOLS

Excellent collection of 19th/20th c. paint and tools, including scrapers; brushes; paints; "Chrome Yellow", "Venetian Red" varnishes; broadsides, all with Hingham history; a wooden paint pail with a tin logo of the Natl. Lead Co. (Dutch Boy), and an early 20th c. print ad showing the pail; and a 19th c. green painted pail with bail handle, with interesting Hingham maritime history. 

WATERCOLORS BY ELECTA REYNOLDS

Three watercolors "from the Garden St. home of Mass Supreme Court Judge Arthur Whittemore", Maine barns and fishing shacks - near Cushing (12" x 16"), near Calais (12" x 16"), near Castine (16" x 12"); all signed "Electa Reynolds". 

LARGE CHINESE BOWL

Early 19th c. Chinese Famille Verte large basin, exterior with springtime festival scene, figures of mothers and children with flags, insects, signed on bottom with Emperor's Period seal mark, interior with figure holding a sign, "ex. Allan Gay House; ex. Mason Foley; ex. Norman Hersey; Gift to JPR", 6 1/2" h, 13" dia. 

19TH C. CERAMIC HANGING CONTAINER

Flared top with cylindrical container, finely painted with brown wheels on yellow and white background, central cartouche with two musicians playing bagpipe and piccolo, signed on bottom "Winston, New York, 688", "acquired from Norm A. Hersey, from S. Randall Lincoln of South Hingham. Handed down from the Revere side of his family" (JPR), 21" h, 9" w. 

19TH C. IRISH LAP DESK

Marquetry inlaid with shamrocks and oval cartouches with castle, ruins, Killarney Lakes, red velvet interior, lift lid with contents, tintypes, photographs, gold rimmed glasses, letters from Ireland, wood straight razor, property of Kate Keane who married Michael Burns, "The Burns Family were a pioneer Irish Family in Hingham during the mid 19th c. The Box mkd M. Burns on the bottom...Emerald St. Hingham.", 12" w.

SMALL OVAL BOXES

Two very small oval boxes, both maple and pine: smallest box stamped "CH" (Cotton Hersey) under the lid, probably was kept in the larger box since it was made (as there is no oxidation formed), 2" l, (smallest Hingham box we've ever seen); and a 19th c. box stamped "RH" (Reuben Hersey) on top and bottom, excellent condition, 1 7/8" h, 2 7/8" w. 

IRON AND TIN LAMPS

Collection of three early forged iron and tin Betty lamps, with Hingham history, "one from the Benjamin Lincoln Estate, (B. 1811), he was a Master Mariner, the largest one was found in the John Beal house, corner of Hersey & Smith St.". 

POTTERY LAMPS

Collection of six pottery lamps, 100-600 A.D., from the Solomon Lincoln Collection of Hingham, "From a Sunken Vessel in harbor at Tyre. Some of the lamp's have vestiges of original color", round handled lamp shows a small missing piece at base, 3 1/4" to 4" l. 

TWO LANTERNS

Early tin and glass lanterns with burners, shaped ring handles, one from "Anchor" tavern, torn down in the 1880's, "Gen Lafayette stayed there during the Revolutionary War" (JPR), 16" h; and an octagonal glass lantern, "ex. Mason Foley; ex. G.C. Lincoln coll.", 12" h. 

FLUID LAMPS

Three glass fluid lamps with whale oil burners: one from the Ensign Cushing farm, 192 So. Pleasant St.; one descended from the Solomon Lincoln family through Henrietta Hilles; one with stepped base and pewter whale oil burner, (shows a break), 12" h. 

GLASS FONT LAMPS

Four 19th c. glass font lamps: two with whale oil burners and whale oil, one with history of S. Randall Lincoln (directly related to Paul Revere and "came from the Boston home of Revere according to Randall" (JPR); lamp acquired from Elizabeth Coatsworth, author of The Littlest House, brass and marble base; and lamp from T. Lincoln, son of Gen. Benjamin Lincoln of Hingham, Mass. 

FOUR RAILROAD LANTERNS

Metal with red glass, "Handlan, St. Louis"; Dietz "Little Wizard, Embury Supreme"; one from the Gate Tender's Shack at Gould's Bridge railroad crossing, Hingham; one found in basement of the Hingham Agricultural & Horticultural Society. 

HANGING LANTERN

Large early red glass lantern, steel cage, missing burner, old red painted finish, 18" h, 13" dia. 

COLLECTION OF LAMPS

Five 18th and 19th c. lamps, including a hand-wrought lamp found hanging from a beam in the Pine Tree Tavern Coach house; as well as a Roman bronze oil lamp with sheep's head; brass finger oil lamp found in the Samuel Lincoln house, 5" l; 18th c. iron betty lamp with hanger, found in the Ebenezer Gay House; and small metal lamp found in Daly home, Green St. Hingham; small hanging lamp. 

TOBACCO BOXES

19th c. collection of four "Crosswords/Plug Cut" tin tobacco boxes, two horn cups (one found in the Nye Tavern, the other from the Rev. Ebenezer Gay house found during restoration in 2002 - has a hole for hanging), and a horn snuff, found in the attic of the Loring Green house, w. corner of Cottage and North Sts. before it was torn down, a round snuff with a humorous painted scene on top of a gentleman lifting up another man's wig, 2 3/4" dia. 

EARLY 18TH C. IRON HINGE

Hand-forged, intricate reverse curved designs, also with incised decoration, remnants of hand-forged rosehead nails, missing a small return on one side, 22" across. 

STRAP HINGES

Collection of 18th c. hand-forged strap hinges, a matching pair in old red paint, 22" to 37", "one from the Leavitt Mill site, South of Triphammer Pond, now Wampotuck State Park", and another from the Souther Shipyard. 

18TH C. HINGES AND STRAPS

Collection of 18th c. hinges, straps with butterfly, all found in Hingham, most with history of where they were found, three pairs.

GLASS AND TIN LAMPS

Collection of tin and glass fluid lamps and lanterns, including a pair of Wells Fargo coach lamps, some are painted red, one hanging with chimney, "acquired from S. Randall Lincoln who said it came from the Old Colony House...it burned about 1872". 

17TH/18TH C. HINGES

Three hand-forged hinges, unusual style, including a horseshoe/strap, "salvaged from a door from an 18th century bldg. at Hingham Harbor"; "pair of strap hinges from the 1692 Daniel Cushing House, acquired from Mrs. Mason Foley, ex. George Lincoln Collection.". 

COLLECTION OF 15 HINGES

Including bronze and hand-forged iron, "H&L's", straps, etc., Hingham history including the Cushing House Inn, Allan Gay house, Col. Nathan Rice House, Wm. Hersey Grant House, Moses Pattengill Foundry at Hingham Harbor.