Burnisher
- Object Name:
- Burnisher
- Object ID:
- 1977.055.01.008
- Date:
- 1888-1914
- Description:
- Colted long stick. Rounded wooden stick with bevelled ends and rectangluar hole with traces of tan abrasive stone (4.4" x 1.2") in center of top. Perpendicular scratches in center of bottom. From shoemaker's bench 1977.55.01.1.
- Material:
- Wood
Stone - Dimensions:
- W-1.5 L-15.25 D-1 inches
- Provenance:
- Acquired in the vicinity of Durham, NH by the collector James Cowan Sawyer (1872-1944).
A shoe sole pattern (1977.55.1.96) bears the names Wiggin & Newhall who are listed in the 1895 Dover City Directory as boot and shoemakers. They were successors to Smith & Wiggin (1892-93 Dover City Directory), who were in turn successors of Walton R. Shaw (1890-91 and 1892-93 Dover City Directories). Wiggin was later in partnership with Dudley L. Furber who made shoes until 1914. Several shoe sole patterns (1977.55.1.95-.98) bear the initials H.G., possibly referring to Henry Glidden of Glidden and Bennett, boot and shoe manufacturers listed in the Dover City directories for 1888-1893. - Credit Line:
- James Cowan Sawyer Collection, Gift of George F. Sawyer and Charles H. Sawyer
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