Use unidentified. Simple nailed construction. X-shaped legs at each end w/ a rectangular stretcher across center, supporting a plank above each side w/ a sawtooth rach element nailed to the interior surface (one slightly lower than the other).
racks (supporting devices)
maple (wood)
maple (wood)
Maple
RACK, PLATE
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
10.75 (W) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.275
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