Ring carved handle w/ flat rectangular "beater" and carved knob finial. Has traditionally been called a boot stretcher or shoe horn.
paddles (mixing tools)
wood (plant material)
PADDLE
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
20 x 1.625 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.372
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