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Baker's Tally

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1858-1860

GUSN

GUSN-10635

Description

Long-tapered, notched pine measuring sticks. Each has a hole for hanging and the same end has angled portion of double thickness.

Details

Descriptive Terms

cookware
cutting (glassworking)
pine (wood)
glass (material)
pine (wood)
Pine
Notched
Hand-cut
STICK, MIXING

Inscription

Hand written in ink on the flat surface: 526.1 Samuel Littel, April 2. 1860 526.2 Samuel Little Feb-29th 1860 526.3 Samuel Lillte Dec 27th 1859 526.4 Samuel Littel, Feb:18 1858 526.5 Samuel Littel, Aug 19, 1859 [barely legible] 526.6 Samuel Littel, June 26, 1860 Barely legible in pencil on each: [see cataloguing worksheet] 526.1 5 ----$16.32 526.2 ----225 815 526.3 4 ----2.38 110 ___7_ 8.50 526.4 8 ----$16.32 526.5 ----128 ___9_ 2.56. J. laf $8.96 526.6 ----2.38 laf 7.44

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

13.875 x 0.875 x 0.25 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.526

Places

Pennsylvania (United States)

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