Hammer, Bush
- Object Name:
- Hammer, Bush
- Object ID:
- 1996.039.01
- Creator:
- Nutting & Hayden
Toolmaker - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- circa 1889
- Description:
- Granite hammer. Steel head with wood (probably hickory) handle (split). Four steel blades on each side of hammer head, held between two steel/iron plates. Plates held with four large bolts. Both plates marked "1"; one plate (on face with nuts) stamped "NUTTING & HAYDEN / MANFR'S / CONCORD, N.H. / No 11810 / PAT.OCT.8'89". Concretions between blades.
- Material:
- Metal
Wood
Steel - Dimensions:
- H-18 W-9 D-3 inches
- Provenance:
- From the former Farm and Forest Museum at The Rocks, Bethlehem, NH. The Rocks was the summer estate of John Jacob Glessner (1843-1936) and his wife Frances Macbeth Glessner (1848-1932). It is now owned by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
- People:
- Glessner, John J. (1843-1936)
- Subjects:
- Granite, Granite quarrying, Hammers
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