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ASSEMBLY, LATCH

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Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

ca. 1695

GUSN

GUSN-28849

Description

A: Pull: with barbed-heart-type escutcheons; handle with semi-round profile. Badly decomposed. B: missing in 1992 C: Catch: with spear-headed rat tail and rectangular tapered tang; traces of white paint. D: Latch Bar: long taper to bean-type head; traces of white paint.

Details

Descriptive Terms

staples
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
Iron
Painted
ASSEMBLY, LATCH

Associated Building

Original To John Hiram Perkins Homestead,

Additional Identification Number

1919.859A

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

2.25 (W) (inches)

Accession Number

1919.859A-D

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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