Hardware, Harness
- Object Name:
- Hardware, Harness
- Object ID:
- 1980.017.062
- Date:
- 1850-1870
- Description:
- Leather harness fitting, rectangular. Folded-over leather strip that would fit around something that would be ~0.3" high x 0.9" wide. Several thread holes on body side on either side of central joint. Thread holes are diamond-shaped in cross-section and are at angles to surface. Outer edges appear to be finished. Surfaces all the way around look to have been finished. Rectangular stamp design on front. Two concentric rectangular raised borders around outside. Most of interior of stamp has central raised diamond with two orbs on either side that have some detailing around them. They are on background of small diamonds. Single long, narrow depressions on the two long, flat sides.
- Material:
- Leather
- Dimensions:
- H-0.6 W-1.2 L-1.7 D-0.12 inches
- Provenance:
- From the estate of Charles Symonds, Loudon, NH, purchased at T.R. Langdell auction, June 28, 1980. The Symonds family included leatherworkers David H. Symonds (1804-1877) and his son George Symonds (1838-1930) of Concord, NH. The family also lived in Hopkinton, NH.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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