1775-1825
GUSN-3130
In the form of an oversized clothes pin with a turned finial with flattened sides on a turned-flat sided, line incised clamp with threaded wood screw with heart shaped knob incised "1797" at one side. The clamp is surrounded by two ball-shaped green wool pin cushions retaining embroidered fragments of blue, red, and pink wool.
sewing tools and equipment
wood (plant material)
Wool
Embroidered
Turned
Wood
Clamp, Sewing
Incised in the screw handle is: 1797 .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 x 5 1/2 x 2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1630
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