1800-1850
GUSN-3376
Of tapered rectangular form with one end a "U" shaped cut-out and a rectangular wood piece nailed to the base of the cut-out; the other, a narrow end pierced with a hanging hole. It is unpainted and the surface is impressed with overlapping circles.
bootjacks
oak (wood)
Oak
BOOTJACK
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
17.5 x 5.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1160
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