Antique Shaker Sock Darner Solid Wood Treen Ware New England Estate Recovery

Description

Offered Here is an Original, Antique, New England "Estate-Recovered" 19th. Century Hand-Carved and Crafted House-Hold Sock-Darner Sewing Implement which appears to be a "Shaker-Society"-Made Ware. The Wood Looks to be from an Oak Tree or another Northern Hard-Wood Tree.Extremely Fine and Meticulous Craftsmanship with Very Smooth Surfaces and a Perfectly Formed Rounded "Finial" at the End of the Handle.
Exceptional Wood Work was Standard for the Religious Shaker Society Shops which Produced a Wide Range of Kitchen and Household Items that were Marketed to the Public and to Other Companies who Sold the Products in their Stores in the Great North Eastern States of 19th. Century America and in to the Very Early 1900's.
"Excellent" Original, Antique, New England "Estate-Recovered" Condition w/ NO FORMS OF "DAMAGE", NO BREAKS, NO CHIPS, NO CRACKS, NO STRIKES OR IMPACT DINGS, NO DISTRACTING SCUFFS, OR SCRATCHES, NO WATER OR MOISTURE CONTACT-ISSUES. Some Faint Wear and Indications of Age + Light Handling. Top-Condition Given the Age of the Item. Very Clean + Very Nice ~ !!
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SHAKER MADE: AGRICULTURE & INDUSTRY
The Shakers were never completely separate from the outside world. They exchanged goods with non-Shakers throughout their history. Shakers started their first major business, garden seeds, by 1790. Eventually they produced hundreds of products ranging from herbs and brooms to chairs and oval boxes. After the 1860s, as fewer men lived in Shaker communities agricultural products declined as Shaker Sisters produced less physically demanding merchandise such as sewing boxes and rugs. They successfully ran businesses at a time when female entrepreneurs were uncommon. The exceptional quality of Shaker goods reflects their belief in work as a form of worship. Today, the Shakers are best known for the beauty and quality of the items they made and sold to the outside
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The religious group that we know today as the Shakers was formed in 18th-century England when dissidents from various religions, including English Quakers and Methodists, formed a religious society based on prophetic doctrine. The group, formally called the United Society of Believers, were known as Shaking Quakers, or Shakers, because of their use of ecstatic dance in worship.
The Shakers emigrated to the United States in 1774 and eventually established nineteen self-contained communities from Maine to Kentucky. Canterbury Shaker Village is one of the oldest, most typical and most completely preserved of the Shaker Villages. The Village contains the oldest, Moses Johnson-style Meeting House in its original location, built in 1792, and the only 18th-century Dwelling House, began in 1793. Overall, the Shakers were the most successful communitarian society in American history.****