From collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Collection
Hooked rug with clamshell design
Rug. Hooked rug, with clamshell design. Description for clamshell from donor's 1987 appraisal at Thomaston Galleries: HOOKED RUG: woolens on burlap with 1/2”-wide braided border. Dark band enclosing tight rows of dark polychrome “Clam Shells”. Good overall condition. 20th c. American Dim: 28” x 47”. Donor doesn't know if it was made on GCI, but recalls it being in her mother's GCI home when she was a child.
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Donor says: I took the clamshell rug along with another hooked rug (floral pattern) which was in the house to Thomaston Galleries this summer on free appraisal day; they appraised the clam shells at $200-300 and the floral at $175-250.
