Two-spindle flax spinning wheel; Likely Connecticut, 18th C.
date: label: date made
content: may have been made in the 18th century
label: Date made
content: 1600-1799
name: label: user
content: Beach, Israel
notes: label: Description
content: Two-spindle flax spinning wheel. Constructed with wooden dowels. Left bobbin and spindle are loose from the leather holder. Distaff is easily removedl. The treadle is not connected. The initials "SP" are burned in one edn of the lower platform of the wheel - possibly the intials of the maker? Likely Connecticut, 18th C.
label: Description
content: This statement comes from several letters written by the donor of this object: "My great grandfather, Israel Beach, built his home at Stratford, Conn. in 1735. Some 30 years ago there was given me by the family that owns the farm, a two-spindle flax spinning wheel that had been left in the attic of the old house. The house had long been unoccupied. It was sided up as well as shingled, with chestnut shingles about two feet long, rived and shaved by hand. I have two of these shingles. My father moved from Stratford into this section in 1816. My grand father Israel Beach Jr. served in the Revolutionary War. I served four years in the First New York (Lincoln Cavalry.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut
label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William H. Beach
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T04330
label: accession number
content: 67715
label: catalog number
content: T4330
label: accession number
content: 067715
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spinning wheel
label: Object Name
content: spinning wheel, flax
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall:;
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 in x 18 in x 18 in; 137.16 cm x 45.72 cm x 45.72 cm