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Lot 128
Cast Iron John Deer Letter Holder and Punched Horse Tin
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The letter holder painted green, with leaping deer and hand plow relief marked JOHN DEERE / MOLINE, IL / 1847," apron finial stamped 2 to verso (16 1/2 x 10 in.); together with a rectangular punched tin panel, likely used for pie safe, featuring a trotting horse (14 x 9 3/8 in.)

From the circa 1750 Aspen Hill Estate, Old Church, Virginia

Rome rusting, surface grime to both; paint losses to iron.