Description:
Description: High straight back, raised molding and corner joinery, body, runners and knees and shafts are painted white (surface grime make it appear off white) with black broad and fine striping throughout, some light blue striping around edge of back panel. Red and yellow double block shaded lettering rear panel and both sides of dash (see report for full description). Painting on rear panel of farmhouse/complex; painting on interior of dash of bearded man driving gray trotting horse to sleigh. Signed by artist (A.M. Allen), paintings later than vehicle and executed as a kind of commemoration. Ends of runners are curved and silver-plated. Shafts have fancy line work on transom. Blue wool seat cover and cushion (later addition). The sleigh was given to Historic Deerfield in 1973 by the Amherst Historical Society and has a history of being used in the Amherst area. Maker: unknown, American (Whatley, MA) (data sheet says made by Moyer—error) Date: sleigh, c. 1830, probably repainted around 1875, Accessories: shafts; Condition: surface dirt embedded in paint, metal oxidized, silver plate peeling from base metal.
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