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1750-1800
GUSN-10653
Fisherman's vade-mecum made of light-colored wood consisting of an outer frame with eight line winders carved from one piece and an inner cylinder of four screwed-together compartments to hold weights, hooks, and one fitted for a reel wound of yellow silk thread; top screws in with carved knop.
manuals (instructional materials)
carving (processes)
incising
wood (plant material)
Wood
Incised
Carved
VADE-MECUM, FISHERMAN'S
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
5 1/2 x 1 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.545
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