The Antique Furnishings of the Cohen House, 415 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland. The first of the family came to America in 1773. This house was built and completely furnished in 1830.
Baltimore, Maryland: Galton-Orsburn Company, Inc., 1929. Softcover. Tan paper wraps, 73 pp., numerous bw images. VG. Item #128530
Auction catalogue, sale held November 14-15, 1929. Gives some genealogical and historical information on the first ancestor to come to America, Israel I. Cohen, from Leeds, England in 1773. He married Judith Solomon and they had six sons. The house, completed in 1830, was passed down through this prominent Baltimore family until the death in 1929 of Bertha Cohen, who left no descendants. Some of the items mentioned in the catalogue were gifts for the wedding of Judith Cohen, 1787. Items sold included furniture (pair exquisite drawing room chairs circa 1830 with a painted and lacquered center panel), glass and porcelain (e.g. Vienna porcelain scent bottle circa 1840), historic and decorative paintings, fabrics and Egyptian antiques and silver.
Price: $29.97