Rack
- Object Name:
- Rack
- Object ID:
- 1972.013
- Date:
- 1825-1875
- Description:
- Cheese ladder. Unidentified hardwood, light tan in color. Rectangular shape. Two long side rails connected by two shorter perpendicular rails. Side rails 1" wide, 0.9" high. Connecting rails 0.7" square. Mortises in siderails and tenons on connecting rails. Mortise 0.8" wide, 0.4" high. Center of connecting rails 6.4" from ends of siderails. Two arched dowels of similar wood, 0.3" diameter, attached to opposite rails and pass through holes in rails; one passes over the other near center at right angles; connected just outside cross rail locations on siderails; they form a cross-shape when viewed from top or bottom. Both rail and bent dowel joints pinned with wood pins. All wooden edges of rails slightly rounded. Ends flat, but their edges all rounded as well. On one rail near end are a couple of red marks.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-4.8 W-11.9 L-23.4 inches Weight-20.05 oz
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- Subjects:
- Cheese
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