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Baseball Bat

Collection Type

  • Sporting equipment

Date

1868-1899

GUSN

GUSN-12689

Description

Turned cylindrical bat tapers toward circular "mushroom" handle from bulbous head. Decorated with two wide black stripes.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bats (game equipment)
hardwood
turning (shaping process)
stripes
Hardwood
Stripe
Turned
BAT, BASEBALL

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.1796

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