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| | Joel Palmer Paint-Decorated Chest Sells for $28,600 : Maine Antique Digest, March 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Fulton County, Pennsylvania, blanket chest decorated by Joel Palmer sold for $28,600 (includes buyer's premium) at Gateway Gallery Auction on January 17 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. |
 | | Joel Palmer (1812-1884) of Belfast Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, was an Anglo-American craftsman who worked in a manner associated with the Pennsylvania Germans, although he was geographically on the fringe of heavy Germanic settlement and influence. |
 | | Several of Palmer's chests have sunflowers flanking floral bouquets, but this is believed to be the first chest with pinwheel designs attributed to Palmer. |
| www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/mar05/palmer0305.htm (229 words) |
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