Plug
- Object Name:
- Plug
- Object ID:
- 1957.036.087
- Date:
- 1875-1900
- Description:
- Rock splitting plug. Steel. Top end of shaft peened over and irregular around edge. Main portion of shaft at top is octagonal, 0.8" flat-to-flat. Octagonal portion ~3.2" long. Shaft then becomes round. Two-sided chisel-point end with rounded front surface, not sharp. Appears to have relief-cast number "7" on one side of handle.
- Material:
- Metal
Steel - Dimensions:
- W-1.1 L-9.6 D-1.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Probably used at the Charles A. Bailey granite quarry, Allenstown, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Adin M. Noyes and Carl O. Noyes
- People:
- Bailey, Charles A. (1847-1937)
- Subjects:
- Rock quarrying, Granite quarrying, Stone quarrying, Stone working, Stonecutting
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