Niddy Noddy
- Object Name:
- Niddy Noddy
- Object ID:
- 2002.023.01
- Date:
- 1800-1900
- Description:
- Niddy noddy. Wood. Central bar with horizontal bars at each end that are oriented perpendicular to one another. Central bar has bevelled edges, a bulge in center, and a tongue at each end that extends into a hole in each horizontal bar that is fastened by a small wooden peg. Horizontal end pieces are bow-shaped, one is curved upward at each end, the other curves upward and one end and is straight on the other. Red and white paper label attached to one end bar, inscribed in ink, "Hand Reel / From Nottingham / Sept 15. 1912".
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- W-14 L-18.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Perry-Dudley Family Archive and Shepard Collection. Handwritten label attached to object: "Hand Reel from Nottingham Sept. 15, 1912." Handwriting is that of the donor's paternal grandmother, Annie Bartlett Shepard (1861-1944), who was born and grew up in Nottingham, NH. The 1912 date indicates when she brought the object from her parents home (Thomas Bradbury Bartlett and Victoria Williams Cilley Bartlett) in Nottingham, NH, to her home in East Derry, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Shepard, Jr., in memory of Mr. Shepard's mother and maternal grandmother
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