----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:21
PM
Subject: identification of a household
item
Hello
I am hoping someone can help
identify the item I describe below. If necessary, I can send a picture. Thank
you!
It is a fairly simple, long, dark
wood box, measuring 24 1/4" x 4 7/8" x 3 7/8. The box has a cover that slides
off and on; the wooden cover is beveled on two sides and one end is notched to
form a handle. Inside there are 40 wooden sticks of various lengths, 20 1/4" -
23" long and about 3/8" thick. Each stick is tapered at each end. There is an
inscription on the box indicating a date of about 1760. The item was given a
number that associates a household use but I am afraid that knowledge of the
use has been lost over the years.
Does it sound familiar to
anyone?
Erin McGough
Registrar and Collections
Manager
Concord
Museum
200 Lexington
Rd.
P.O.
Box
146
Concord,
MA
01742-0146
Tel: (978)
369-9763
Fax: (978)
369-9660
www.concordmuseum.org
David Sibley's Birds
June 24, 2005 - January 1, 2006
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