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Ratcheting Trammel

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1760-1800

GUSN

GUSN-2308

Description

A trammel composed of straight shaft with hanging hole and notched shaft with hole at terminus, held together by two shaped and pierced wood bars that allow adjustment of length; painted yellow-green.

Details

Descriptive Terms

hangers (fasteners)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Painted
Trammel

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

30 x 4 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.316

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