Cracked. Reads: "I H 1774" Marked three times: "MZ"
Front and back hounds are heavy wooden members of the running gear. Each is configured into a "wishbone" shape whose "prongs" are attached to front or rear axle. Thus, this iron is likely a hound band that encircles and secures the hounds where they are joined to the coupling pole that runs front to back. (These wooden members are part of what we now call the chassis.)
Lathe-turned wooden tar bucket with fitted lid and remnants of leather straps. Cylindrical vessel has slight taper inward toward middle. Decorated with two double score marks below center. Above center are shoulders jutting outward with vertical holes through which straps of leather handle pass. Handle also passes through lid of conforming shape, although one strap broken off at shoulder while the other is broken off 3 inches above shoulder.Center hole in lid apparently accepted a now-missing stick used to apply tar to wheels. Broken-off 5-inch length of leather strap rests inside. Tar residue in bucket.
Lancaster County or region.
Provenance
Donor believes bucket descended from family members to his parents who displayed it on their mantle. Donor inherited it from parents.
Handmade rectangular grater crudely fashioned with tinned sheet iron and having 14 staggered slits of 1.25" width and raised edges for cutting. All four edges are folded to back, but the two long sides are rolled over wire to stiffen length of tool.
Crudely fashioned tin tool has wear and imperfections at blades and back corners. Abrasions and corrosion scattered overall. Peeling paint or corrosion.
Hanging balance scales with two brass dishes. Attached tag: "Miss Emma H. Ranck". Listed in original accession notes as "Assayers Scales" used specifically for weighing metals.
Photograph of cased image taken at the Addis Gallery in Lancaster, c. 1852, of the Christian Shenk family: Christian, wife Mary Warfel Shenk and children, left to right, Elizabeth Shenk Fahnestock, Anna Shenk Kendig, Abraham Shenk and Rudolph Shenk. The Shenks were proprietors of the Sorrel Horse Hotel on West King Street in Lancaster.
Photograph- Thomas Strawbridge Dickey, b. October 23, 1807, and Letitia Ann Wilson Dickey, b. October 31, 1810, d. June 7, 1884, and their children. They were married May 14, 1829. Babe in arms of Letitia is Margaret Andres Dickey, b. Feburary 2, 1850. Babe in arms of Thomas is James Wilson Dickey, b. August 31, 1848. Between parents is Hannah Dickey, b. February 2, 1845. Standing boy is David Dickey, b. November 5, 1842. First row extreme right is Jane Patterson Dickey, b. November 3, 1840. Left to right in back row: Mary Jackson Dickey, b. September 8, 1843; Harriet Dilworth Dickey, b. October 30, 1838; Rebecca Wilson Dickey, b. November 19, 1832; Ann Maffitt Dickey, b. March 16, 1830, named for her grandmother, Ann Maffitt, wife of David Dickey; and Letitia Strawbridge Dickey, b. January 22, 1837.
Photograph- Thomas Strawbridge Dickey, b. October 23, 1807, and Letitia Ann Wilson Dickey, b. October 31, 1810, d. June 7, 1884, and their children. They were married May 14, 1829. Babe in arms of Letitia is Margaret Andres Dickey, b. Feburary 2, 1850. Babe in arms of Thomas is James Wilson Dickey, b. August 31, 1848. Between parents is Hannah Dickey, b. February 2, 1845. Standing boy is David Dickey, b. November 5, 1842. First row extreme right is Jane Patterson Dickey, b. November 3, 1840. Left to right in back row: Mary Jackson Dickey, b. September 8, 1843; Harriet Dilworth Dickey, b. October 30, 1838; Rebecca Wilson Dickey, b. November 19, 1832; Ann Maffitt Dickey, b. March 16, 1830, named for her grandmother, Ann Maffitt, wife of David Dickey; and Letitia Strawbridge Dickey, b. January 22, 1837.
Description
Thomas Strawbridge Dickey, b. October 23, 1807, and Letitia Ann Wilson Dickey, b. October 31, 1810, d. June 7, 1884, and their children. They were married May 14, 1829. Babe in arms of Letitia is Margaret Andres Dickey, b. Feburary 2, 1850. Babe in arms of Thomas is James Wilson Dickey, b. August 31, 1848. Between parents is Hannah Dickey, b. February 2, 1845. Standing boy is David Dickey, b. November 5, 1842. First row extreme right is Jane Patterson Dickey, b. November 3, 1840. Left to right in back row: Mary Jackson Dickey, b. September 8, 1843; Harriet Dilworth Dickey, b. October 30, 1838; Rebecca Wilson Dickey, b. November 19, 1832; Ann Maffitt Dickey, b. March 16, 1830, named for her grandmother, Ann Maffitt, wife of David Dickey; and Letitia Strawbridge Dickey, b. January 22, 1837.
Photograph- Lancaster Mercantile College, North Duke Street. T. H. Pollock, Principal. Now site of Lancaster County Courthouse Annex. Image from 1857 map of the city of Lancaster.
Photograph- Lancaster Mercantile College, North Duke Street. T. H. Pollock, Principal. Now site of Lancaster County Courthouse Annex. Image from 1857 map of the city of Lancaster.
Description
Lancaster Mercantile College, North Duke Street. T. H. Pollock, Principal. Now site of Lancaster County Courthouse Annex. Image from 1857 map of the city of Lancaster.
