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| Catalogue # | Title | Type | Subject | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000.154.1126 | Awl with bone handle, brass ferrule, and steel point |
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| Tool, awl (large), fancy bone handle, brass ferrule, steel point | 
Description: Tool, awl (large), fancy bone handle, brass ferrule, steel point |
| 2013.214.1864 | Bait pouch, twine net with drawstring mouth |
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| Fishing gear, bait pouch, net-woven from twine, with drawstring mouth to pull closed, to be filled with bait and hung inside lobster trap to attract lobsters | 
Description: Fishing gear, bait pouch, net-woven from twine, with drawstring mouth to pull closed, to be filled with bait and hung inside lobster trap to attract lobsters |
| 1000.174.1236 | Boat building tool? |
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| Tool, boat building tool (?) | |
| 1000.0.1277 | Boatbuilding tool on wood base similar to nut cracker |
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| Tool, metal boatbuilding tool on wood base, similar to a nut cracker; molded into the metal "SARGENT & CO" and "10" | 
Description: Tool, metal boatbuilding tool on wood base, similar to a nut cracker; molded into the metal "SARGENT & CO" and "10" |
| 2012.13.1392 | Branding iron 7327 |
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| Fishing gear, Metal Branding Iron to burn "7327" onto lobster floats or buoys, presumably. |
Description: Fishing gear, Metal Branding Iron to burn "7327" onto lobster floats or buoys, presumably. |
| 2013.214.1852 | Branding iron RH STANLEY |
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| Fishing gear, branding iron to burn "RH STANLEY" onto wooden lobster buoys | 
Description: Fishing gear, branding iron to burn "RH STANLEY" onto wooden lobster buoys |
| 1000.27.1124 | Brass lobster gauge |
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| Tool, lobster gauge, brass, used to determine whether a lobster is of legal size to be kept. From the lobster's eye socket notch to the end of its carapace, it must be no larger than 5" and no smaller than 3-3/16". This guage has those two dimensions built in | 
Description: Tool, lobster gauge, brass, used to determine whether a lobster is of legal size to be kept. From the lobster's eye socket notch to the end of its carapace, it must be no larger than 5" and no smaller than 3-3/16". This guage has those two dimensions built in |
| 2013.214.1917 | Broken wood frame for handline branded J. C. PIKE |
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| Fishing gear, empty wooden frame for fishing handline, broken into two halves and just pushed together; branded "J. C. PIKE." on both halves | 
Description: Fishing gear, empty wooden frame for fishing handline, broken into two halves and just pushed together; branded "J. C. PIKE." on both halves |
| 2013.214.1859 | Buoy (lobster float), double plastic buoys yellow with red |
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| Fishing gear, buoy (lobster float), double plastic buoys on one plastic shaft, yellow with three vertical red stripes, branded with "7491" and also "8676"; the plastic shaft has been heated and bent to form a loop to which a swivel fitting is attached, which is then tied to a rope | 
Description: Fishing gear, buoy (lobster float), double plastic buoys on one plastic shaft, yellow with three vertical red stripes, branded with "7491" and also "8676"; the plastic shaft has been heated and bent to form a loop to which a swivel fitting is attached, which is then tied to a rope |
| 1000.0.1256 | Buoy (lobster float), white & green |
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| Fishng equipment, buoy (lobster float), white & green | 
Description: Fishng equipment, buoy (lobster float), white & green |
| 1000.0.1273 | Buoy (lobster float) with initials B.S. |
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| Fishing gear, buoy (lobster float) with black tip, initials B.S | 
Description: Fishing gear, buoy (lobster float) with black tip, initials B.S |
| 2016.372.2136 | Circular wooden sieve |
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| Kitchen/Farm. Circular wooden sieve with metal screen, iron handle, and side hooks for winnowing beans from the husks. Gaile Colby recalls her aunt "winnowing in the wind." | 
Description: Kitchen/Farm. Circular wooden sieve with metal screen, iron handle, and side hooks for winnowing beans from the husks. Gaile Colby recalls her aunt "winnowing in the wind." |
| 2013.218.1857 | Clam hod (clam basket) handmade |
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| Fishing gear, large wood, rectangular, slatted box with handle - clam hod (clam basket) handmade out of parts previously painted in various colors: red, white, green. With small wooden box full of shells. | 
Description: Fishing gear, large wood, rectangular, slatted box with handle - clam hod (clam basket) handmade out of parts previously painted in various colors: red, white, green. With small wooden box full of shells. |
| 2013.218.1858 | Clam rake with metal tines and wood handle |
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| Fishing gear, clam rake with metal tines and short wooden handle with a hole on the end | 
Description: Fishing gear, clam rake with metal tines and short wooden handle with a hole on the end |
| 2013.214.1879 | Colorful glass floats - fishing gear |
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| Fishing gear, glass float collection, one each clear, green, and red, in a nylon pouch with a drawstring (for display purposes only); clear float is molded; red and green floats hand made with pontil marks | 
Description: Fishing gear, glass float collection, one each clear, green, and red, in a nylon pouch with a drawstring (for display purposes only); clear float is molded; red and green floats hand made with pontil marks |
| 2013.214.1871 | Cork net floats of assorted sizes, strung on a rope like beads |
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| Fishing gear, cork net floats (21) of assorted sizes, strung on a rope like beads |
Description: Fishing gear, cork net floats (21) of assorted sizes, strung on a rope like beads |
| 1000.0.1031 | Cranberry Island General Store bags |
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| Artifact, 1031a-b. (a) and (b) are two types of paper trash bags bought at the old Cranberry Island General Store | 
Description: Artifact, 1031a-b. (a) and (b) are two types of paper trash bags bought at the old Cranberry Island General Store |
| 2013.214.1915 | Display Case |
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| Furniture, glass display case with wood frame and three compartments: left and right compartments are deep with hopper type door hinged on the bottom; midddle compartment is shallow with a concealed cash drawer under it which opens with a bell ring if four finger-hole keys are pressed in the right combination | 
Description: Furniture, glass display case with wood frame and three compartments: left and right compartments are deep with hopper type door hinged on the bottom; midddle compartment is shallow with a concealed cash drawer under it which opens with a bell ring if four finger-hole keys are pressed in the right combination |
| 1000.170.1232 | Double handled spoke shave |
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| Tool, double handled spoke shave, probably for smoothing a ship's mast | 
Description: Tool, double handled spoke shave, probably for smoothing a ship's mast |
| 2000.233.1332 | Early fishing rod |
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| Fishing gear. Early Fishing Rod | |
| 2013.256.1986 | Edgar White's branding iron |
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| Branding iron, long handle with heavy head: "E.N. White 1442". 1442 was Edgar Nelson White's number, and black and white were his colors. Edgar was Victor White's brother. With reminiscences of the family in the 1960s by Charles Liebow including Edgar and Alice White, their Dog Point Road house and outbuilding "Duffys", their grandsons Chuck and Larry Pipes, and working as sternman for Edgar. | 
Description: Branding iron, long handle with heavy head: "E.N. White 1442". 1442 was Edgar Nelson White's number, and black and white were his colors. Edgar was Victor White's brother. With reminiscences of the family in the 1960s by Charles Liebow including Edgar and Alice White, their Dog Point Road house and outbuilding "Duffys", their grandsons Chuck and Larry Pipes, and working as sternman for Edgar. |
| 2009.188.1395 | Fishing hand line |
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| Fishing gear, hand line | |
| 1000.0.1278 | Fishing hand line spool |
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| Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 14", with 3 rungs | 
Description: Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 14", with 3 rungs |
| 1000.0.1279 | Fishing hand line spool |
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| Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 13.5", with 2 rungs | 
Description: Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 13.5", with 2 rungs |
| 1000.0.1252 | Fishing line weight |
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| Fishing gear, fishing line weight 2.5" |
