Sawtooth Trammel
date: label: date made
content: 1879
notes: label: Description
content: Sawtooth trammel consisting of a rectangular hanging rod or bar with square hook at bottom end that has a swelled-center, pivoting handle riveted through it and an adjustable, sawtooth extension with twelve ratchets ending in a fan- or shell-shaped hook; circular bosses at ends of handle and band at top of extension that loops around the hanging rod. Handle is stamped incuse with what appears to be "T T" in gothic or Old English letters above "1879".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Milton E. Kettler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.305956.0007
label: catalog number
content: 305956.0007
label: accession number
content: 305956
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trammel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 19 7/8 in x 6 3/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 50.4825 cm x 16.1925 cm