Longaberger Horizon of Hope Campaign & Patriotic Holiday 4-Piece Basket Lot

A highly collectible 4-piece estate lot of officially licensed, hand-woven maple hardwood baskets produced by Longaberger Baskets of Dresden, Ohio. This commemorative collection combines two charitable Horizon of Hope campaign releases with a bold patriotic holiday market basket and an open countertop utility bucket.
Lot Items & Details
1998 Horizon of Hope Campaign Basket: A small, square-profile basket hand-assembled from natural maple splints. Equipped with an overhead wood swing handle.
Accessories: Outfitted with a forest green fabric over-the-rim liner printed in a repeating white geometric snowflake or floral star motif, featuring a ruffled collar. Includes a clear plastic interior protective liner.
Markings: The base underside features a specialized campaign stamp reading “American Cancer Society®”. Hand-signed by the weaver with initials KH and explicitly dated 1998.
1999 Horizon of Hope Campaign Basket: A matching small, square-profile companion basket mirroring the exact structural dimensions and overhead wood swing handle layout of the previous year’s release.
Accessories: Outfitted with an identical forest green and white floral geometric print fabric liner and a high-clarity clear plastic interior protector liner.
Markings: Stamped underneath with the official corporate campaign emblems and hand-signed by the weaver with initials KH, dated 1999.
2002 Patriotic Holiday Market Basket: A beautiful, round bowl-profile market basket featuring a deep natural plain weave structure. Equipped with a high, single overhead wood swing handle.
Accessories: Fitted with a bold, festive over-the-rim fabric liner printed in a patriotic American flag theme, combining alternating fields of red-and-white stripes with navy blue panels of white stars, finished with a heavily ruffled collar. Includes a form-fitting clear plastic interior protective liner.
Markings: The wood base panel is cleanly stamped underneath with the corporate manufacturer logo, hand-signed with the artisan’s signature initials MTT, and explicitly dated 2002.
Tall Open Countertop Utility Basket: A unique, vertical square-profile bucket basket standing taller than the other lot items. Hand-woven from plain natural maple hardwoods and finished with a wide overhead wood swing handle. Includes a matching clear plastic interior protective liner.
Condition Report
Weave & Structure: Exceptional, collector-grade condition across all four pieces. The woven hardwood splints remain perfectly tight, uniform, and completely free of cracks, structural splits, or loose ends. All wood swing handles are robust and pivot cleanly.
Liners & Plastics: All specialized fabric liners are pristine, clean, dry, completely un-faded, and free of storage dust or stains. The clear plastic interior protective liners are bright, transparent, and entirely free of warping or cracking.