Description:
Whaling captain's chandelier with a tapered cylindrical center tube, at the top are attached 4 convex reflectors, 4 candle arms are attached to the lower part of the tube on scrolling stems, ring at the top. It is filled with sand to give it stability with the motions of the ship. Mary Earle Gould (1885-1972) was a prolific writer on the subject of antiques, material culture, and early social customs. She graduated from Wheaton Seminary (now Wheaton College) in Norton, MA, in 1906 with a degree in music, and initially pursued a career as a performer, lecturer, and piano instructor. In the 1930s, she developed an interest in antiques; over the next 40 years she assembled a collection of more than 1,200 pieces of tin ware, wooden ware, and iron ware, which she displayed in her Worcester, MA, home. In 1967, Gould donated her collection to Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts. Gould began writing about antiques and collecting in 1934 in articles that appeared in the New York Sun, and became a regular contributor to a variety of newspapers and magazines, including Antiques, Hobbies, The Spinning Wheel, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Worcester Telegram-Gazette. Her first book, Early American Wooden Ware, was published in 1942; three other books, The Early American House (1949), Antique Tin & Tole Ware (1958), and When We Were Young (1969), followed.
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