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1969.90

ID Number: 1969.90
Category: T&E For Materials
Sub-category: woodworking T&E
Item Type: try
Item Name: square
Date: 1800
Materials: metal, brass; wood, rosewood; metal, steel
Measurements: overall: 7 5/8 in x 5 in
Description: brass plated, brass diamond-shaped inserts around rivets;
History: English made metal try square with rosewood stock, brass plated and having diamond shaped brass inserts. This was a common tool in the English kits from 1800 on. Belonged to Francis X. Drouillard, born in Walkerville in 1823. Francis died in 1912 in the same farmhouse along the river where his father was born in the early 1800s.
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

Subjects

Drouillard, Francis X. person

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