Stake, Garden
- Object Name:
- Stake, Garden
- Object ID:
- 1992.017.01 - .09
- Creator:
- Benjamin Chase Company, Inc.
- Place of Origin:
- Derry, NH
- Date:
- 1992
- Description:
- Stakes, set of eight wooden plant stakes and one wooden plant tag, made by Benjamin Chase Company, Inc., Derry, NH, 1992. .01-.08 are long wooden garden stakes, one end pointed with slightly truncated tip. Opposite end has two clipped corners. Unpainted, raw eastern white pine from New Hampshire. .09 is a rectangular pine tag with clipped corners at each end and two corner notch at each end. One end has a bright silver color wire wrapped around it through notches.
- Material:
- Wood
Pine - Provenance:
- Acquired for the forest products section of the NHHS exhibition, "At What Cost? Shaping the Land We Call New Hampshire," 1992-93. The Benjamin Chase Company, Inc., has been making pine stakes and labels for nurseries and florists since 1867. Made of eastern white pine from New Hampshire.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Benjamin Chase Company, Inc.
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