1750-1850
GUSN-221183
Quilling rod. Used with wheel 1919.724. See photograph in : Cummer, Joan Whittaker. "A Book of Spinning Wheels". Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall, 1993, p. 67; for an example of a wheel that such a rod would have been used with.
rods (object genre)
spindles (textile working equipment)
ash (wood)
oak (wood)
Spindle
Unknown
14 3/4 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of William Wallace Taylor
1913.2
Possibly New England (United States) [general region]
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