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Turned and carved unfinished wood body. Cylindrical body w/ chanfered edge at circular top. Incised line at top third of body. Clothespin arms formed by two straight cuts through center, terminating at incised line.
pins (fasteners)
Oak
CLOTHESPIN
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
0.875 (W) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.274
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