Lot 133: Stocking Dryers

SOLD: $550 (without buyer’s premium)
Estimate: $400 – $700

Five wooden carved and shaped stocking stretchers and dryers, one pair with carved circular holes and string for hanging, 25″ l, 4 1/4″ l; one very long (37″), cherry or maple with string for hanging, signed in pencil at top “10, Shaker Colony, Canterbury, N.H.”; and a pair of poplar wood stretchers, 27″ l, 3 1/2″ w, with label “No. 7, #659, .75 a pair”, North Family, New Lebanon, NY and Canterbury, NH, (James Bissland collection).