Wheel, Leatherworking
- Object Name:
- Wheel, Leatherworking
- Object ID:
- 1980.017.035
- Date:
- 1850-1870
- Description:
- Tooling instrument. Dark brown, bulbous wood handle, brass and steel. Handle swells to a fairly sharp-edge finger rest near brass ferrule. Steel handle: 0.3" diameter near ferrule, tapers to 0.15" diameter near end. Upward bend in handle. At end is star-shaped cutter that rotates in slot. Cutter is 0.3" diameter. Twelve points on cutter. Stamped on left side of steel shaft near ferrule: "VETTER". Stamped on top of shaft near ferrule "12". Small rosette stamped in end of handle.
- Material:
- Metal
Wood
Brass
Steel - Dimensions:
- L-5.8 Dia-1.2 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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