Tool, Sand Casting
- Object Name:
- Tool, Sand Casting
- Object ID:
- 1961.035.04
- Description:
- Foundry tool, brass. Long irregular shaft connects to curved bottom feet. Feet are like rectangular spoon with parallel sides. Larger foot: 1.2" long x 0.6" wide; curve 0.16" deep on bottom; bottom and sides quite smooth; depression in top with cast-sand surface. From curved foot, rectangular shaft that then becomes nearly round until at other end it goes back to being roughly rectangular, connecting with smaller foot. This smaller curved foot is 0.9" long x 0.44" wide x 0.17" deep; smooth bottom and sides; sand-cast surface in depression at top of foot. Toes of each foot slightly rough. Name stamped into side of shaft near small foot: "J. NICOL". Other end of shaft also stamped "J. NICOL"; after that, "N" in block letters that is either stamped or created by three straight-line stamping; this "N" extends slightly beyond edge of shaft. Some other file and tool marks on sides of shaft at different locations.
- Material:
- Metal
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-6.6 L-7.4 D-0.6 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Eaton Clapp
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