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1957.73.1

ID Number: 1957.73.1
Category: T&E For Materials
Sub-category: textileworking T&E
Item Type: spinning
Item Name: wheel
Materials: WOOD, OAK METAL, STEEL
Measurements: overall: 6 in x 42 in
Description: hand-hewn oak; legs- 2 posts; flywheel spokes and hub and spindle parts lathe turned from a fine grained hard wood; flywheel 46" diameter; notched decoration around 4 edges at ends of bed; belt tensioning wood thumbscrew on spindle post and drive belt, both missing; spindle post pegged loosely to bed; peg missing from flywheel post beneath bed; scratched marks for location of parts visible on bed and inside of flywheel rim.
History: -given to G.F.Macdonald by Mr. and Mrs. Curtis J. Green of Birchlea, Kingsville, Ontario. A letter from Mrs. W. Leo King daughter of Mrs.C. King -Muriel G. King (Mrs. W. Leo King) notes at one time it belonged to the grandmother of the Wright girls who used to live on Sandwich st.,
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

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England / Angleterre place

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