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Hand card

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Collection Type

  • Tools and equipment

Date

ca. 1850

GUSN

GUSN-25200

Description

Pair of wooden wool cards; metal spines on leather backing tacked to cards w/ metal tacks. Initials "F.W." lightly carved on face of one card.

Details

Descriptive Terms

leather
metal
wood (plant material)
Unidentified Metal
Leather
CARD, HAND

Inscription

See description.

Associated Building

Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

10 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman

Accession Number

1985.267

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