Kurt Kilty

Maine Antiques Digest
Items recently featured in MAD

Fraktur
An elaborate illuminated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, most Fraktur were created between 1740 and 1860.

Early Embroidery and Hooked Rugs
Early embroidered pillow - 7.5" tall, 9" wide, 2.5" deep. Made from 18c Amish wedding apron.

Wooden Decorated Boxes
Painted, decorated boxes including candle boxes, bureau boxes and miniature blanket chests.

Wallpaper Boxes
Wallpaper was used to make charming, delicate boxes for hats and trinkets during the mid 19th century.

Paint Decorated Wall Boxes
Efficiency and beauty combined in these humble conveniences, holding candles, kindling and more.

American Samplers
Samplers originated as a way to keep together samples of stitches used in embroidering household articles before books of patterns existed. American samplers, often created by children as young as 5, are noted for their originality, inventiveness and char

Baskets
Once among the most common of household objects, American artisan baskets have all but disappeared from daily use. Genuine handmade baskets - especially antique ones, are highly prized and popular as features of country decorating.

Quincy, MA Memorial
Memorial on Velvet Dated 1824, In memory of Mrs. Lucy Jillson, Quincy, MA, 25” x 23” Pristine.

Stoneware
Stoneware refers to a predominant houseware of 19th c North America, a pottery usually covered in a salt glaze & often decorated using cobalt oxide to produce bright blue decorations.

Early American Watercolors
Colorful 18th and 19th c American watercolor paintings and theorems.

Ballot Box
Rare New England Ballot Box c 1835. Original red paint and dovetail construction.

Redware
Redware, our domestic earthen pottery of the 17th to 19th centuries, was given its name from its post-firing clay color. Some outstanding examples are shown here.

Furniture
Cupboards, hanging and otherwise, blanket chests, tables and more.

Pantry Boxes
Food storage boxes were imported from Europe until colonial tradesmen began making them during the late 18th c. Many were painted in colors that brightened a corner when stacked. These utilitarian boxes came in graduated sizes & sometimes had bail or wood

Paint Decorated Wooden Bowls
Early American bowls were greatly varied, ranging from small salt dishes to enormous bowls for preparing & serving large meals. Pioneers shaped the earliest bowls with simple hand tools; then in the 18th c. colonial tradesmen used lathes to turn them.

American Metal and Hearth Ware
A diverse collection of lighting, hearth ware, and other American metal work items.

Quilts
We have collected quilts - mostly crib quilts, for a long time. Here are some favorites we are letting go now.

Antique Hourglass
Very Early Hourglass With Polychrome Painted Posts

Signed Carved Ducks & Other BIrds
Ducks and other birds from noted carvers. Shown here, Pair of Ruddy Ducks, by Bob White of Tullytown, PA (b. August 9, 1939). Made 2001.

Painted Frame (Possibly by Arson Clark)
Original black painted frame, stenciled in salmon and green decoration. Chrome yellow pinstripe. 15” x 18”; Early 19th c. Excellent condition. Provenance.

Mennonite Rainbow Rag Carpet, Lancaster County, PA
Woven by a professional weaver ~1870, this rag rug contains bright-colored wool yarn favored by the PA Germans on a heavy warp made of strips of recycled household textiles.

Carved Cakeboard
Cake boards, utensils used throughout history to imprint forms and shapes on cookies, flat breads and cakes, were made of wood and had intricate carvings. Molds created in New York were often elaborate and large, depicting major events of the day or simp

Oil paintings
The earliest US art is often called "Primitive", since it is usually done by self-trained artists of the 18th & early 19th centuries. Often naïve in conception & sometimes draftsmanship, they nonetheless have a beauty & charm all their own!

Weathervanes
Although partly functional, weather vanes are generally decorative, often featuring the traditional cockerel design with letters indicating the points of the compass. Other common motifs include ships, arrows and horses.

SOLD (but not forgotten!)
Some of our favorite items that are now in other cherished collections...