PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1780

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A Pair of Iron and Wooden Sickles
Pennsylvania, circa 1780
One with blade stamped S CHRIST and handle with hand inscription in ink, Presented by Dr. Daniel Yoder Catasauqua; the other with blade stamped D.CHRIST.
18½ in. long, 17¾ in. wide (2)

Provenance

Dr. Daniel Yoder (b. 1833), Catasauqua, Pennsylvania
Nathan Liverant and Son, Colchester, Connecticut

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Please note that the sickles are stamped by Daniel and Solomon Christ of Greenwich Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania and date to the first half of the 19th century.

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Lot Essay

Dr. Daniel Yoder was born in 1833 in Maxatawny Township, Berks County. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Medical College in 1858 and practiced homeopathic medicine in Catasauqua, Lehigh County (James F. Lambert and Henry J. Reinhard, A History of Catasauqua (Allentown, PA, 1914), p. 241).

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