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GUSN-3301
A large wheel with tapered rod turned spokes that are bolted to a turned and line incised post. It has a similiarly turned distaff(?) and four splayed turned legs supporting rectangular planks(?).
spinning wheels
ash (wood)
oak (wood)
turning (shaping process)
Ash
Oak
Turned
WHEEL, SPINNING
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
42 (H), 45.5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1087
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