Mold, Brick

Object Name:

Mold, Brick

Object ID:

1975.049.01

Description:

Brick Mold. Wood, steel, and copper alloy. Stained wood. Rectangular body with wooden handles on end, divided into a 2 x 3 array of rectangular boxes. Wooden box and its divisions made of stock 0.65" thick. Mortise and tenon joints on edges and ends. Corners are finger joints. Mortises, tenons, and finger joints all wood pegged. Handles on ends, 0.8" thick, 6" wide, taper slightly inward at outside edge. Top edge at outside, slightly rounded. Nailed in place through end pieces. Quarter cylindrical concave fillet in one outside corner in each division. Flat arms ~2" longs. Tacked in place with steel tacks. They fit into cutout notch in each of the two adjoining sides. Notch depth 0.15". Overall length and width of sections, 8.6" x 4.1". Three long copper alloy strips that match width and length of wood members on top edge of body, held in place by flathead screws. 12 screws in the long pieces. Shorter strips, between long ones, have three screws each. Tenons 0.65" wide x 0.5" high. Two 0.5" high tenons at finger joints at corners, a central, 0.6" high tenon, and top and bottom heights of tenons, 0.37". On this one, small section where piece broken off by handle at one end. Central joints are half-lap joints.

Material:

Wood
Steel
Copper
Steel

Dimensions:

H-2.4 W-10 L-30.5 inches Weight-63.7 oz

Credit Line:

Gift of Mary W. McEvoy, Elizabeth W. Getty, and Margaret W. Mirick

People:

Whittemore, Arthur G. (1856-1931), Whittemore, Caroline R. (1858-1934), Whittemore, Manvel O. (1890-1961), McEvoy, Mary W. (1917-2001), Getty, Elizabeth W. (1920-1992), Mirick, Margaret W. (1919-2004)

Subjects:

Bricks