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Forrest, Asta |
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Bellpull - Forrest, Asta
Counted cross stitch bellpull tapestry featuring landmarks from Aalborg, Denmark. Made from off-white linen. Embroidery done in muted colors. Bellpull has a border of light green scallops and blue dots along all edges. At the top, embroidered in large cursive gray letters is "Aalborg". Below that is a coat of arms, which is presumably a stylized design of Aalborg's coat of arms. Shield has a bulbous red building with rounded yellow turrets a...
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Bookmark - Forrest, Asta
Bookmark. Made from white linen and rectangular in shape. Cross stitch embroidery in red and blue with white fringe along the bottom edge. Fringe is 3/4" long. Cross stitch embroidery features three blue lions (from the Danish Coat of Arms) above the words "HILSEN / FRA / DAN- / MARK" [Greetings from Denmark] in red thread, and a crown in blue thread. Bordered by blue.
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Bowl, Fruit - Forrest, Asta
Fruit bowl. White with openings around edges for decoration-fruits (pineapple, peach) etc. painted in center of bowl.
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Bowl, Sugar - Forrest, Asta
Sugar bowl. Has two blue and gold handles. Has blue and yellow flowers painted on with gold leaves. C. T. printed on bottom of each
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Carving - Forrest, Asta
Wooden figure carved roughly. The figure portrays a Danish postman in a red coat with white buttons and white stripes on his cuffs, black pants and shoes, and a black hat with a white band around it. He has a green tie on as well. His arms are at his sides.
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Carving - Forrest, Asta
Wooden figure carved roughly. The figure portrays a Danish postman in a red coat with white buttons and white stripes on his cuffs, black pants and shoes, and a black hat with a white band around it. He has a black tie on as well. His left arm is at his side with a piece of white mail tucked under it. His right arm is bent at the elbow and he is holding an envelope in his fingers. On the rear bottom of his coat is a red sticker with off whit...
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Case, Needle - Forrest, Asta
Needle case or holder. Small clear glass tube or vial with a small round metal cap that inserts into the top/open end. Opposite end is rounded.
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Chair - Forrest, Estate of Asta
Walnut side chair. Dark colored wood. Has a wide seat, wider at the front, curves in a little on the sides, and then flares back out just a bit at the back. The chair back is like latice work--interwoven scrolls, loops. The legs splay out slightly. The stretchers cross in the center and that center is slightly raised.
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Coffeepot - Forrest, Asta
Pitcher with lid. Pitcher has gold trim on lip-other gold rings around body-has small lion figure on top of handle-lid is white with gold trim.
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Coffeepot - Forrest, Asta
Coffee pot with lid. White pot with blue and yellow flowers, gold leaves on both sides-blue and gold handle-also gold on spout-lid is white with blue and gold handle. C. T. printed on bottom of pot
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Cover, Matchbox - Forrest, Asta
A tan, wooden matchbox cover. The cover is in a "U" shape with straight sides. The hand-painted image on the front is of Jens Bang's Stenhus (Stone house) in Aalborg, Denmark. The house is large with a tan colored facade and red roof. There is a large door and several windows. Burned into the spine in nice handwriting is "Aalborg." Along the edges are small round burn marks for decoration.
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Cover, Matchbox - Forrest, Asta
A tan, wooden matchbox cover. The cover is in a "U" shape with straight sides. The hand-painted image on the front is of Ebeltoft Town Hall. Facing forward, the building has a orange-reddish facade with a dorr that has two windows on either side. The roof is red and has a narrow steeple in the center that rises high into the sky. There is a white object and brown object that are on either side of the building, maybe plants or other buildings. Th...
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Cover, Matchbox - Forrest, Asta
A tan, wooden matchbox cover. The cover is in a "U" shape with straight sides. The hand-painted image on the front is of Himmelbjerget, what used to be thought as the highest point in Denmark (147 mtr.). On the right and left sides, there are two green tree tops. The trees are parted, and there is an image of a building in the distance. The building is a darker tan color and is rectangular in shape and vertical in orientation. The building re...
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Cover, Matchbox - Forrest, Asta
A tan, wooden matchbox cover. The cover is in a "U" shape with straight sides. The hand-painted image on the front is of the Blokhus Souvenir and Gift Cottage. The cottage is made of brown painted logs and sits at an angle. There is a pair of large horns where the roof peaks. The windows on the cottage have blue and red spots near them, possibly flowers. There are trees beside the rear of the cottage that have brown trunks and green leaves. Th...
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Cover, Matchbox - Forrest, Asta
A tan, wooden matchbox cover. The cover is in a "U" shape with straight sides. The hand-painted image on the front is a seafarer's navigation marker in Lokken-Beach resort town in Denmark. The marker is painted as a dark wooden shack sitting on a wooden tripod frame along the beach. There are painted sand hills with bits of green grass growing. Behind the hills and tripod is the ocean painted blue. There are streaks of green-blue painted in th...
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Cover, Matchbox - Forrest, Asta
A tan, wooden matchbox cover. The cover is in a "U" shape with straight sides. The hand-painted image on the front is the lighthouse at Skagens Gren, the most northern tip of Denmark. The light house is a painted a darker tan color and has four circular windows in a vertical line. The top of the light house has a small "X" painted in green. There is green painted in fron tof the light house representing grass. There are a few buildings aroun...
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Cover, Matchbox - Forrest, Asta
A tan, wooden matchbox cover. The cover is in a "U" shape with straight sides. The hand-painted image on the front is of a log cabin in Rebild, Denmark. Sitting at an angle, the log cabin is rectangular and made of brown painted logs. The cabin sits in the middle of the cover with sefaoam and forest green splotches surround the structure, imitating grass foliage. There are is a Danish flag and American flag on poles in front of the door of the ca...
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Cover, Matchbox - Forrest, Asta
A tan, wooden matchbox cover. The cover is in a "U" shape with straight sides. The hand-painted image on the front is of Dybbol Molle, a landmark commemorating the 1864 War between Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. A large windmill is in the center of the cover. The windmill is white with large wooden slatted blades that are painted in brown. There is green foliage that surrounds the base of the windmill. A red roof or object sits on the viewer's ...
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