Bush Hammer Teeth
name: label: associated user
content: Pirie, W.
label: associated user
content: Woods, C.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a set of 28 bush hammer teeth, or plates, which would have been inserted into either end of a bush hammer. They were intended for use with a hammer pole with three-quarter inch jaws. Half are marked with a single slanting groove and the other half are marked with a double slanting groove.
label: Description
content: These would have been used by a stone carver.
label: Description
content: A bush hammer, also known as an axe hammer, is a masonry tool used to texturize stone and concrete. In 1831, Joseph Richards (1784–1848) of Braintree, MA, invented the bush hammer. The US patent was issued February 20, 1828, for a stone-working tool, with a patent number of X5010 or 5010X. His patent sparked many other inventors' designs for the bush hammer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Hand Tools
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Olde Country Store of Witmer, PA
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1265.21
label: accession number
content: 1979.1265
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1265.21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hammer Teeth (28)
label: Other Terms
content: Hammer Cuts; Bush Hammer Teeth (28); Hammer Teeth (28); Stonecutter/Stone Dresser; Stoneworking; Striking & Prizing Tools; Hand Tools
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: string (?? connector/connecting technique)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: string (?? material)