Pattern, Leatherworking
- Object Name:
- Pattern, Leatherworking
- Object ID:
- 1980.017.092
- Date:
- 1850-1870
- Description:
- Leather-working pattern, pricked paper, cardboard and pounce-like pattern. Pattern shape: emblem with rounded bottom, slightly pinched sides that leads to short section before reaching flat top edge. Fanciful, symmetrical floral design on pattern. Slight vertical crease in center, perpendicular to flat end. Pattern delineated by small round holes, all punched from one side. On opposite side, dislodged paper shoved up adjacent to each hole. Pattern mostly fanciful stems and leaves. Paper and cardboard have light-colored core with smooth sheets front and back. Very slight pattern in paper surface on both sides. Some delamination on one edge of flat side. Rounded sides of pattern have edges turned up in both directions.
- Material:
- Paper
Cardboard - Dimensions:
- W-5.6 L-5.8 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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