Iron, Leatherworker's
- Object Name:
- Iron, Leatherworker's
- Object ID:
- 1980.017.024
- Date:
- 1850-1870
- Description:
- Edging iron, wood, brass, steel. Dark brown, bulbous wood handle tapers to slight finger stop, tapers down to brass ferrule. Square, steel handle starts at 0.32", tapers downward then swells to 0.34" at end. Blade has chamfered edges that taper to small square neck which swells to rectangular blade. Rectangle has upward curved bottom edge with sharp blade on front. Two pointed ribs on exterior that extend beyond blade and curve upward slightly to pointed ends. Handle stamped on top: "VETTER". Adjacent to that and at right angles: "4". Handle is so heavily encrusted with finger grease making it hard to see if any rosette on end. Small segments of lightly scribed parallel line going around handle.
- Material:
- Metal
Wood
Brass
Steel - Dimensions:
- L-6.1 Dia-1.1 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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