Small brown leather covered wooden sewing box with compartmented interior. Leather-hinged lift lid with metal clasp at front, now detached at both clasp and hinge. Underside of lid has 3 leather strap holders, each holding a paper packet of needles. Gold-stamped mark at top center of underside is "CROSS/ LONDON".
Interior has additional fitted lid covering the front section of 3 small compartments. On top of cover are two leather loop holders. Small right rear compartment has fabric-covered padded bottom. Contents include two Bakelite? buttons, nine mother of pearl buttons, two cards of fabric covered buttons, a spool of brown thread and two early black safety pins. Each corner on bottom of box has a brass stud foot.
Very worn, particularly the exterior leather which is strongly abraded with cracks and losses at corners and edges. Leather hinge and clasp are both detached. Two dark circular stains on lid top.
Object ID
1977.007.2
Place of Origin
New York, New York
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Hammer with wooden handle and cast iron head. Head is symmetrical and rectangular with square crosshatching on either end. There is no marking stamped into the head. Neck is thicker than the rest of the handle. Head is slightly loose from handle. Both handle and head appear to be lacquered.
Bore holes from beetle: 2 about and inch from the bottom of the handle; 4 inches from the bottom of the handle; 2 inches from the bottom of handle; one about four inches top of the head.
Object ID
2016.999.6
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Needle case of orange glass, cylindrical with rounded closed ends. Two-piece case has short and long sections that pull apart to reveal inner lining - a tube of marbleized paper. Glass case has identical bands of painted decoration at open ends of each section. Short section has "Forget" painted in stylized script and an adjacent "M" (?). The "M" is also found near painted band of longer section with additional decoration (?) along side of case. Case contains 3 very fine needles of differing lengths.
Forged Brass three part sewing bird. Top surface of bird has a molded diamond pattern. Bird mounted on a C-clamp with threaded turn screw with heart-shaped handle.
Comb mounted on wooden board with 1/2-inch holes, 3 inches from each end and 1/8-inch holes 1.75" beyond larger holes (5.5 inches from ends). These holes are centered between side edges. Attached to top in center is a 7/5" x 4.5" x .5" piece of wood covered with a metal sheet fastened with tacks on all 4 sides. Large tacks on all 4 corners & 4 tacks from underside attach comb to board. 173 2-inch metal prongs form comb. Plant fibers still between some prongs.
PaGerman = 'die Hackel" (Stine, p. 281) 'Hackle" means combing flax to take out the tow.
Metal bar,small, rounded, curved end. Two holes drilled in center of bar.
Provenance
The minutes found in the Journal of Oct. 4, 1912 is a listing of "old utensils" given by Geo. W. Brown, printer from Lancaster, including bayonet, scabbard, old thimble, corn husker, egg beater.
Long, thin length of octagonal bar with striking head at one end and other end with four-fluted, slightly enlarged tip. Known for making holes in masonry by hand.
Marked "BALTIMORE 3/?". along side.
Provenance
Maker to daughter Ruth Eppley Ganse and spouse Robert N. Ganse to son
Long, thin length of octagonal bar with striking head at one end and other end with four-fluted, slightly enlarged tip. Known for making holes in masonry by hand.
Marked "BALTIMORE 3/?". along side.
Provenance
Maker to daughter Ruth Eppley Ganse and spouse Robert N. Ganse to son
