1800-1850
GUSN-11159
Rough hewn rectangular block of wood with a 'U'-shaped cut-out at one end and a crudely chamfered handle piercing the other end.
bed keys
wood (plant material)
Wood
Bedkey
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
15 1/8 x 9 1/2 x 2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.487
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