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2013.219.1874Harpoon or "Lilly Iron" with swivel piece on the barb
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, "Lilly Iron" (harpoon) from Wesley Bracy, Jr. with swiveling piece on the barb that folds flat for easy penetration, but opens crosswise for increased grip, thus preventing loss of the fish; Bruce Komusin inserted a wooden boomstick handle and secured it with rope for display purposes.
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Fishing gear, "Lilly Iron" (harpoon) from Wesley Bracy, Jr. with swiveling piece on the barb that folds flat for easy penetration, but opens crosswise for increased grip, thus preventing loss of the fish; Bruce Komusin inserted a wooden boomstick handle and secured it with rope for display purposes.
2013.241.2039Wooden needles for mending nets
  • Object, Fabric Piercing Tool, Sewing Needle
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear. Collection of twelve wooden tools: (A) Eight wooden needles for mending nets, making and repairing bait bag netting: snowshoe-shaped implements with U-shaped end, closed tangs, and pointed ends. (B) Net needle: wood with large rectangular eye hole. (C) Wood rectangle with hole in the middle and a loop of rope through two other holes: lobster fishing assemby that keeps the line from getting tangled. (D and E) Two wood implements that come to a smooth point.
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Fishing gear. Collection of twelve wooden tools: (A) Eight wooden needles for mending nets, making and repairing bait bag netting: snowshoe-shaped implements with U-shaped end, closed tangs, and pointed ends. (B) Net needle: wood with large rectangular eye hole. (C) Wood rectangle with hole in the middle and a loop of rope through two other holes: lobster fishing assemby that keeps the line from getting tangled. (D and E) Two wood implements that come to a smooth point. [show more]
2013.256.1985Harpoon head from Victor White's old garage
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear. Harpoon head: wood handle with threaded metal collar and 5-pronged metal barbed harpoon head. Wood handle is a sawed-off tree limb; metal collar possibly an old pipe fitting; harpoon head is inserted into handle; collar turns freely. One tine missing its barb. From Victor White's old garage summer 2013.
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Fishing gear. Harpoon head: wood handle with threaded metal collar and 5-pronged metal barbed harpoon head. Wood handle is a sawed-off tree limb; metal collar possibly an old pipe fitting; harpoon head is inserted into handle; collar turns freely. One tine missing its barb. From Victor White's old garage summer 2013.
2013.241.1956Head of a branding iron: W.E. BUNKER
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear. Head of a branding iron: W.E. BUNKER. Iron head, no handle.
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Fishing gear. Head of a branding iron: W.E. BUNKER. Iron head, no handle.
2013.241.1953Trawl line on wood frame with lead sinker and large hook
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear. Trawl line wound around wooden frame with heavy lead sinker and large metal hook.
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Fishing gear. Trawl line wound around wooden frame with heavy lead sinker and large metal hook.
2013.241.1952Trawl line with wood frame
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear. Trawl line wound around wooden frame. Wooden handle is nailed to frame (unusual).
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Fishing gear. Trawl line wound around wooden frame. Wooden handle is nailed to frame (unusual).
2012.13.1391Round metal fishing buoy
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear. Metal Fishing Buoy, round. It is stamped on one side PHILLIPS PATENT GUARANTEED LIGHTWEIGHT MODEL. and on the other, PATENT No 331163 NOTICE OF INFRINGEMENT REWARDED. The patent number is from Great Britain.
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Fishing gear. Metal Fishing Buoy, round. It is stamped on one side PHILLIPS PATENT GUARANTEED LIGHTWEIGHT MODEL. and on the other, PATENT No 331163 NOTICE OF INFRINGEMENT REWARDED. The patent number is from Great Britain.
2013.256.1986Edgar White's branding iron
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
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.
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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.
2013.221.1877Glass float from herring fishing net
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, glass float, round, aqua colored, with pontil mark (where glass was blown, then removed from pipe), fully enclosed in a stout twine net (with unusually wide openings) which would be attached to the edge of a herring net
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Fishing gear, glass float, round, aqua colored, with pontil mark (where glass was blown, then removed from pipe), fully enclosed in a stout twine net (with unusually wide openings) which would be attached to the edge of a herring net
2012.13.1392Branding iron 7327
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, Metal Branding Iron to burn "7327" onto lobster floats or buoys, presumably.
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Fishing gear, Metal Branding Iron to burn "7327" onto lobster floats or buoys, presumably.
2013.214.1852Branding iron RH STANLEY
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, branding iron to burn "RH STANLEY" onto wooden lobster buoys
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Fishing gear, branding iron to burn "RH STANLEY" onto wooden lobster buoys
2013.262.1994Sailmakers thimble or net mender
  • Object, Thimble
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Boat tools. Sailmakers thimble (a.k.a. net mender per donor), leather and metal with star on thimble. Thumb slips through hole and metal thimble is used to push needle through dense material.
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Boat tools. Sailmakers thimble (a.k.a. net mender per donor), leather and metal with star on thimble. Thumb slips through hole and metal thimble is used to push needle through dense material.
2013.214.1917Broken wood frame for handline branded J. C. PIKE
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, empty wooden frame for fishing handline, broken into two halves and just pushed together; branded "J. C. PIKE." on both halves
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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
1000.0.1227Wooden barrel with fishing twine
  • Object, Containers
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Large bundle of fishing twine
Description:
Large bundle of fishing twine
1000.27.1124Brass lobster gauge
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
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
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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
1000.0.1192Large fishing hand line with weight
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, large hand line with weight (for fishing)
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Fishing gear, large hand line with weight (for fishing)
2004.164.1182Herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, large herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle. The net itself is 11' long, the metal hoop 5.5' in diameter, the wooden handle 10' long, the overall length (hoop + handle) is 15.5'. Net was found upstairs in Wesley Bracey Sr.'s workshop (before the building was moved and became the Cranberry House).
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Fishing gear, large herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle. The net itself is 11' long, the metal hoop 5.5' in diameter, the wooden handle 10' long, the overall length (hoop + handle) is 15.5'. Net was found upstairs in Wesley Bracey Sr.'s workshop (before the building was moved and became the Cranberry House).
1000.12.1179Wooden buoys (lobster floats) and net floats on a rope
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, 4 wooden buoys (lobster floats) and 8 round net floats strung on a rope; all buoys are shaped like clubs with a hole to attach a rope on one end. all net floats are shaped like beads with a hole through the center. one buoy has carved initials WFS and is 12.5" L x 4" W x 1.5" H; one buoy has carved initial X and is 13.5" L x 3" W x 2.75" H; the other two buoys have no marks and are 10.5" L x 3.5" W x 2" H, and 12" L x 4" W x 2.5" H. the eight round net floats are varying sizes round and oval, from 3" L to 5" L
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Fishing gear, 4 wooden buoys (lobster floats) and 8 round net floats strung on a rope; all buoys are shaped like clubs with a hole to attach a rope on one end. all net floats are shaped like beads with a hole through the center. one buoy has carved initials WFS and is 12.5" L x 4" W x 1.5" H; one buoy has carved initial X and is 13.5" L x 3" W x 2.75" H; the other two buoys have no marks and are 10.5" L x 3.5" W x 2" H, and 12" L x 4" W x 2.5" H. the eight round net floats are varying sizes round and oval, from 3" L to 5" L [show more]
1000.0.1225Large fishing handline with weights on wood frame
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, large handline with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame
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Fishing gear, large handline with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame
1000.0.1256Buoy (lobster float), white & green
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishng equipment, buoy (lobster float), white & green
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Fishng equipment, buoy (lobster float), white & green
1000.0.1252Fishing line weight
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, fishing line weight 2.5"
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Fishing gear, fishing line weight 2.5"
1000.0.1279Fishing hand line spool
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 13.5", with 2 rungs
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Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 13.5", with 2 rungs
1000.0.1278Fishing hand line spool
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 14", with 3 rungs
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Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 14", with 3 rungs
2013.222.1882Wooden and foam lobster buoys on a rope
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Fishing gear, 3 wooden and 5 foam buoys (lobster floats), strung on a rope; wooden buoys: a) bullet shape with white bottom and orange top, hole on top for handle, hole through bottom body for trap rope, 18.5" L x 4" W x 4" D; b) bullet shape with blotches of white, green, and yellow all over the body and handle, branded with "98?????" carved letters ?VV, on the another side carved letters "?ILLE", on another side carved letters "SOW??I?", with black rubber strip tacked on two opposite sides to make a loop for attaching trap rope, 25" L x 5.5" W x 4.5" D; c) log shape with white bottom and orange top and handle branded with "PL ?UNKER" and "BU???R" with canvas strip tacked on the flat bottom to make aloop for attaching trap rope, but broke so a rubber stip was tacked on top of it for the same purpose, 17" L x 7.5" W x 6.25" D; (and 5 foam floats removed for display outside Shaw cabin 2015)
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Fishing gear, 3 wooden and 5 foam buoys (lobster floats), strung on a rope; wooden buoys: a) bullet shape with white bottom and orange top, hole on top for handle, hole through bottom body for trap rope, 18.5" L x 4" W x 4" D; b) bullet shape with blotches of white, green, and yellow all over the body and handle, branded with "98?????" carved letters ?VV, on the another side carved letters "?ILLE", on another side carved letters "SOW??I?", with black rubber strip tacked on two opposite sides to make a loop for attaching trap rope, 25" L x 5.5" W x 4.5" D; c) log shape with white bottom and orange top and handle branded with "PL ?UNKER" and "BU???R" with canvas strip tacked on the flat bottom to make aloop for attaching trap rope, but broke so a rubber stip was tacked on top of it for the same purpose, 17" L x 7.5" W x 6.25" D; (and 5 foam floats removed for display outside Shaw cabin 2015) [show more]
2016.355.2120Wooden buoys and decoys, some from 1920s
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Buoys and decoys. Collection of 10 wooden buoys of various shapes and sizes, and two wooden decoys. 1. Blue and white fish-shaped wooden buoy with Richmond name on it. LHA 7519. 2. White, wooden with EW carved onto small piece of wood affixed to buoy (perhaps Edgar White). Hole for handle but handle is missing. 3. Black, yellow, and red bottom, wood, with Numbers 360 or 9 with rubber strap on end. Log with flat bottom. W. Bracy carved, ca. 1920s 4. Mushroom shape, no handle with EN White 1442 with iron ring. See the other "White" above and below. White fished 1930s to 1960s 5. Red bullet shaped, wooden with wooden handle. Branded on it C. Alley, 967 and 805 and 7193; (The name Richman is written on masking tape affixed to buoy.) 6. Red, yellow, and black, wooden handle and rubber strap, Part of last name or complete last name is 'Auy'. Red black yellow chipped paint, with rubber or leather strap and handle broken off, long crack. Has a number on it. 7872 branded on it. 7. Wood, white, mushroom shape with half black handle. "1442" and "N White", with iron ring on base. Perhaps turned on a lathe. Unusual. See the other "White" buoy. 8-10 Three buoys tied together: Blue and white, fish shaped, with Richardson 900. 11. Decoys. Wood with post on one end (neck) and B.S. carved on body. B.S. could indicate Bert Stanley or Boynton Stanley, perhaps gift of Jim Bradley - flat bottom, twine attached to each end to connect to other decoys. (See also 1000.0.1296 primitive decoys in museum.)
Description:
Buoys and decoys. Collection of 10 wooden buoys of various shapes and sizes, and two wooden decoys. 1. Blue and white fish-shaped wooden buoy with Richmond name on it. LHA 7519. 2. White, wooden with EW carved onto small piece of wood affixed to buoy (perhaps Edgar White). Hole for handle but handle is missing. 3. Black, yellow, and red bottom, wood, with Numbers 360 or 9 with rubber strap on end. Log with flat bottom. W. Bracy carved, ca. 1920s 4. Mushroom shape, no handle with EN White 1442 with iron ring. See the other "White" above and below. White fished 1930s to 1960s 5. Red bullet shaped, wooden with wooden handle. Branded on it C. Alley, 967 and 805 and 7193; (The name Richman is written on masking tape affixed to buoy.) 6. Red, yellow, and black, wooden handle and rubber strap, Part of last name or complete last name is 'Auy'. Red black yellow chipped paint, with rubber or leather strap and handle broken off, long crack. Has a number on it. 7872 branded on it. 7. Wood, white, mushroom shape with half black handle. "1442" and "N White", with iron ring on base. Perhaps turned on a lathe. Unusual. See the other "White" buoy. 8-10 Three buoys tied together: Blue and white, fish shaped, with Richardson 900. 11. Decoys. Wood with post on one end (neck) and B.S. carved on body. B.S. could indicate Bert Stanley or Boynton Stanley, perhaps gift of Jim Bradley - flat bottom, twine attached to each end to connect to other decoys. (See also 1000.0.1296 primitive decoys in museum.) [show more]