Brace
- Object Name:
- Brace
- Object ID:
- 2023.022.55
- Creator:
- Milger & Sons
Toolmaker - Date:
- 1800-1850
- Description:
- Carpenter's bit brace. Wood and steel. 1800-1850. C-shaped steel crank with round cross section. Wooden palm handle at top, slightly flattened, round, flat-bottomed section that sits atop vase-type turning with a couple of decorative grooves in vase section. Handle portion of crank is oval shape wood turning with single decorative line around center. Chuck square in cross-section, centrally set on end of bottom crank shaft. Thumb set screw on one side of chuck. Chuck has truncated pyramidal hole with small end at top. Name stamped into round metal section below handle, "MILGER & SONS."
- Material:
- Wood
Steel - Dimensions:
- W-5.75 L-10.75 D-2.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Dunlap Estate
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- People:
- Dunlap, Robert (1779-1865)
- Subjects:
- Tools, Furniture industry, Furnishings, Furniture
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