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November 21, 2025: Fall Premier Americana: Day Two Featuring The Benny Long Collection

Fri, Nov 21, 2025 09:00AM EST
  2025-11-21 09:00:00 2025-11-21 09:00:00 America/New_York Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates : November 21, 2025: Fall Premier Americana: Day Two Featuring The Benny Long Collection https://live.jeffreysevans.com/auctions/jeffrey-evans/november-21-2025-fall-premier-americana-day-two-featuring-the-benny-long-collection-20569
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  • Shenandoah Valley
Lot 1083

EXTREMELY RARE SHENANDOAH OR ROCKINGHAM CO., SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA PAINTED POPLAR PUNCHED-TIN-PANELED PEWTER CUPBOARD

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
Current Bid
$5,000

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EXTREMELY RARE SHENANDOAH OR ROCKINGHAM CO., SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA PAINTED POPLAR PUNCHED-TIN-PANELED PEWTER CUPBOARD, one-piece, step-back form of square-nail construction, the upper section with four fixed shelves, the bottom two fitted with applied plate supports, the lower section with two hinged doors, each set with two punched-tin panels bearing a design which features an elliptical eye-like central device framed by corner fans, concealing a single interior fixed shelf, all flanked by solid ends and raised on a bold cut-out bracket-foot base. Poplar and yellow pine secondary woods. Retaining its original dry blue-painted surface. Circa 1850. 72 1/2" H, 42" W, 16" D.
Published: Russ and Evans - Opening the Door: Safes of the Shenandoah Valley, p. 64, fig. 4.1.
Catalogue Note: Cupboards set with punched-tin panels are very rare. This example was used in a kitchen setting, and the top displayed pewter or ceramic plates, platters, and other tableware. Its nailed construction suggests that it was made by a carpenter or house-builder rather than a cabinetmaker.
This cupboard was made for the mid 19th century kitchen addition to the original circa 1773 log house situated on the homestead of George and Barbara Keller Baumann/Bowman located between Timberville and Forestville, on the border of Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties. A section of the log cabin has been relocated to the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia, where it represents the American Farm.
 

Condition

Very good overall condition with minor to moderate scattered wear. Surface somewhat irregular, possibly lightly cleaned.

Provenance

From the collection of Benny Long, New Market, VA.
Purchased from Houston S. Bowman out of the family log cabin (noted above) near Timberville, VA, around 1995.
Descended in the Bowman family. 
Exhibited: "Safes of the Valley," Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA, May 2014 - March 2015.

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