Combination Tool Handle (Multitool)
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1875
name: label: user
content: Copp Family
notes: label: Description
content: This small hand tool belonged to a member of the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th century. The tool has a hollow polished hard-wood tool handle that contains an awl and two small knives that could be inserted into the handle.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place made
content: Europe
label: place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
title: label: Title
content: Coombination Tool Handle
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Knives
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006846.01
label: catalog number
content: 6846.01
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tool
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: horn, cow or buffalo (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (awl; blades material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 7/8 in; 13.97 cm x 2.2225 cm