Easel in the “Modern Gothic” Style

Possibly Pottier & Stymus Company

About 1875

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Tall, glass champagne flute with spirally-fluted, conical bowl, in a shade of deep burgundy that fades to light at the bottom of the bowl, the clear glass stem is textured, the round foot also of clear glass.
Transparent glass vase with wheel-cut decoration consisting of horizontal lines in an ascending-descending checkerboard pattern.
Album/Friendship type quilt, but with no signatures, found in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, orange, brown lining
Large, square cotton quilt, pieced, in the "Crown of Thorns" pattern, also known as the "Rocky Mountain Road" pattern and since the 1930s, has also been classified as one of the "New York Beauty" patterns, against a white ground a grid of nine blocks defined by orange-red bands with green dogtooth motifs on either side, these same bands form the border of the quilt, the lines intersected by small, square medallions centered with green and orange-red star-like, floral motifs, at the interior corners of each square a half sunburst pattern with serrated edge in the same orange-red fabric, which, when the blocks are placed side by side, form circles at the corners of each block.