Longaberger St. Patrick's Day Clover & Irish Festival 3-Piece Basket Collection

A beautifully curated 3-piece themed estate collection of officially licensed, hand-woven hardwood containers celebrating Irish culture and St. Patrick’s Day, produced by Longaberger Baskets of Dresden, Ohio. This highly collectible lot features limited-edition holiday and campaign pieces, complete with custom graphic lids, a high-end metal finial handle, embroidered textiles, clear protective liners, and factory identification tags.
Lot Items & Details
2005 “Irish Festival” Medium Basket with Claddagh Finial Lid: An elegant, rectangular box-profile basket featuring a complex, multi-tone green weave. Alternates vibrant lime green and forest green vertical splints with bold horizontal bands of black-and-gold striped tracking splints.
Accessories: Outfitted with a premium WoodCrafts solid lid finished in a deep forest green stain. The top is embellished with a high-end, three-dimensional polished gold-tone Claddagh ring finial handle (hands holding a crowned heart). Includes a continuous cream fabric interior liner beautifully decorated with a detailed embroidered central green and gold shamrock vine motif. Includes a form-fitting clear plastic protective insert liner.
Markings: The base underside runner retains a special burnt stamp featuring a clover-in-a-box campaign graphic and is hand-signed by the weaver, explicitly dated 2005.
2015 “Irish Festival” Tapered Basket with Inlaid Clover Lid: A charming hexagonal basket designed with a narrow lower footprint that flares upward into a wide open-top rim profile. Hand-woven with a rustic natural maple body woven with alternating lime green and forest green accent staves.
Accessories: Complete with its matching WoodCrafts lid featuring an exquisite, smooth inlaid geometric marquetry four-leaf clover motif built from varied shades of green wood panels, framed by an intricate chevron border ring. Includes a form-fitting clear plastic interior protective liner and its original factory inspection tag reading “BASKET / IRISH FESTIVAL / 12993 / Handwoven in Dresden, Ohio U.S.A. / Quality Inspected By: WSHOP/WS on 01/15/2015”.
Markings: Stamped underneath the wide wooden base collar with corporate logos and a custom clover insignia, explicitly dated 2015.
2010 Irish Shamrock Chalice Pot Basket: A unique, stylized pedestal container featuring a narrow bottom ring base that flares dramatically outward into a wide, round chalice bowl rim. Hand-woven in an interlocking layout of deep forest green and pale sage green accent splints.
Accessories: Outfitted with a premium over-the-rim fabric liner decorated with a repeating pattern of multi-colored green clover bundles and shamrocks against a white ground field. Includes a high-clarity clear plastic interior protective liner.
Markings: The solid green-stained continuous wood bottom plate features the official corporate logotype and a custom red-inked clover stamp, explicitly cross-dated 2010.
Condition Report
Weave & Woodwork: Exceptional, mint collector-grade condition across all three items. The woven hardwood splints remain perfectly tight, uniform, and completely free of chips, splits, fracture lines, or structural fading. Both solid wood lids fit completely flush against the basket rims. The marquetry wood inlay artwork is crisp, and the gold-toned metal Claddagh ring handle holds a high, scratch-free luster with zero oxidation.
Liners, Fabrics & Plastics: The specialized embroidered shamrock pouch liner, clover print textiles, and fabric components are crisp, dry, completely un-faded, and free of storage dust, fraying, or stains. All clear plastic interior protective inserts are bright, highly transparent, and entirely free of warping, clouding, or cracking. The original 2015 factory packaging tag remains fully intact.