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Lot 2159

Four Vintage Miniature Splint Oak Baskets, Including Mary Prater (TN, b. 1928)

Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Mid 20th century, the first a finely woven ribbed buttocks basket with bentwood handle, pencil signed and dated "Mary Prater 1965" to the handle underside (5 in.); the second a miniature melon form, faded signature and 1941 date to the underside (2 1/4 in.); the third and smallest a miniature melon basket form, unsigned (2 in.); the tallest in baluster form with double loop handles, unsigned (5 in.).

Private Collection of a Gentleman, Greensboro, North Carolina

Good estate condition.