Carved Whimsey
date: label: date made
content: 1902-12
notes: label: Description
content: Section of a tree branch or small trunk, bark left on, with the inside whittled away into chains of different designs, the largest at center features a barbell configuration with ball-in-cage at bottom, rotating cage at middle and a loop suspended from two links at top, while smaller chains at sides include captured-ball swivels, a spinning ring, and a pair of pliers. Remaining shell is pierced with a pair of hearts and ellipses, and topped by a screw eye for hanging. Handwritten inscription at center inside reads: "Cut With / Pocket Knife / from Solid Wood / by / Thos.(?) H. Smith / Dec\r 1902 / Aged 77\yrs / "a L.I. / American" / Born at / Patchgue (sic) / 1825".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Patchogue
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Theodore Roosevelt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.229683
label: catalog number
content: 229683
label: accession number
content: 42351
objectType: label: Object Name
content: whimsey
label: Object Type
content: carving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linden (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 6 1/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 8.255 cm x 15.5575 cm