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Egg-shaped head consisting of grey plaster or mortar enclosed by four wires in a quartered arrangement. Wires form a long rope-twist shaft, terminating in crude quatrefoil knop handle. Possibly for tanning hide.
tools
mortar (filler)
wire
Wire
Mortar
TOOL, UNIDENTIFIED
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
11.5 x 2.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.194
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