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A wide, long board with a rounded end. Unpainted.
boards (flat objects)
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
Wood
Carved
BOARD, LAYING OUT
On a jelly label in a blue fountain pen, found on the back of the board read: Laying out board/found in vicinity of/East Kingston, N.H. On a white index card written in blue fountain pen and taped to the top of the board below the jelly label read: Laying out Board/from the vicinity/of/East Kingston, N.H. On a jelly label below the index card, in a ballpoint is: Laying-out board/Found in East/Kingston, N.H./area. Owner would not part with it./Sold after his death.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
73 x 17 x 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1056
New Hampshire (United States)
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