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326. PAIR OF SCARCE AND RARE PAINTED LEATHER FIRE BUCKETS FROM THE COLEMAN FAMILY
OF NANTUCKET, circa 1821, a matched pair of buckets hand painted in original green-gray paint with brick-red trim and black
lettering “J-Coleman 1821 No. 1 and No. 2”, the handles are present but detached. The buckets were purportedly owned by John
Franklin Coleman (1788-1863) of Nantucket; Together with two documents: A treasury department document from the Office of
General Superintendent U.S. Life-Saving Service to Captain Henry Coleman of Nantucket, dated Sept. 27, 1889 and a 2 nd document,
a ship’s manifest agreement for the schooner Sacremento which declares the names of six members of the crew aboard the schooner
on a voyage from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands and return. Signed and dated November 6, 1850 and addressed to Captain
Henry Coleman.
Height of Buckets 14 in. Diameter 8 ½ in.
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