Longaberger St. Patrick's Day Irish Blessing & Leprechaun 3-Piece Basket Collection

A beautifully themed 3-piece estate collection of officially licensed, hand-woven hardwood containers celebrating Irish folklore 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 stenciled typography, a novel costume-belt motif, shamrock textiles, and original factory care inserts.
Lot Items & Details
2011 “Irish Blessing” Round Basket & Scripted Lid: A round, bowl-profile basket hand-assembled with an interlocking multi-tone green weave pattern that alternates vibrant lime green and forest green vertical splints over a thick continuous wood base.
Accessories: Complete with its matching drop-in solid WoodCrafts lid finished in a deep forest green stain. The top face is beautifully printed with an elegant, flowing gold metallic script stencil reading a traditional Irish blessing: “May your pockets be heavy and your hearts be light, May good luck pursue you each morning and night”, accented by matching gold scrollwork flourishes and a shamrock emblem.
Markings: Stamped cleanly on the solid green underside plate with corporate branding and a custom red-inked clover stamp, explicitly cross-dated 2011.
2009 Leprechaun Belt Miniature Market Basket: A unique, rectangular bucket-profile market container woven from natural hardwoods and contrasting green tracking staves. The center is styled with a wide, integrated matte-black leather Leprechaun costume belt weave strip closed tightly on the front panel with a heavy, polished gold-tone metal square belt buckle.
Accessories: Features an internal open-top layout holding an original Longaberger brand logo informational pack-in story card.
Markings: The base runner understructure features a specialized campaign stamp and is hand-signed by the weaver with initials and explicitly dated 2009.
2018 Irish Fortune Single-Handle Pot Basket: A charming, small-scale square basket featuring a tight natural maple plain weave body framed by broad vertical pillars of dyed forest green splints, completed with a matching solid green top rim trim band.
Accessories: Equipped with a high, single overhead green-stained wood swing handle. Outfitted with a premium drawstring fabric pouch liner beautifully decorated in a green-and-white country gingham check background printed with a dense pattern of green clover bundles and shamrocks. Nested at the base is a delicate, white crocheted lace structural open-stitch heart medallion charm.
Markings: Stamped underneath the wood base runner panel with the specialized campaign brand logo, hand-signed with artisan initials JMD, and explicitly dated 2018.
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. The solid wood scripted lid fits completely flush with crisp gold lettering and no surface scratches. The larger wood swing handle pivots smoothly, and the black leather belt strip and gold-toned metal buckle on the 2009 model maintain high luster with zero scuffing.
Liners, Fabrics & Lace: The specialized shamrock drawstring fabric liner, gingham textiles, and delicate crocheted lace heart medallion are crisp, dry, completely un-faded, and free of storage dust, fraying, or stains. All internal compartments are exceptionally clean. The original factory packaging paperwork remains sharp and un-creased.