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1800-1810
GUSN-10610
Ovoid bottle-shaped spinning wheel carved from wood with a cavity with lead; long, narrow neck ending in flattened round knob; there are traced of old, green paint.
weights (scale components)
carving (processes)
lead (metal)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Lead
Painted
Carved
Weight, Balance
Paper Label on side: for turning/ spinning wheel/ 1800
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4 1/2 x 2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.498
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