Wrought iron trammel; large with an adjustable sawtooth extension attached to the round arm above the flattened hook at the bottom and a flattened hook at the top. The height stretches from 17-25 1/2".
racks (timepiece components)
cutting (dividing)
iron (metal)
welding
wrought
Iron
Wrought
Cut
Welded
Trammel
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
17 x 4 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1505
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