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.
Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Iron, Marking Iron
Subject:
Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Businesses, Fishery Business
Materials:
Metal
Size:
29" L x 7" W x 2.5" H
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.
Description: Tool, metal boatbuilding tool with long handle and small metal hook on one end, probably for pulling out caulking from between seams, 13.25"
Tool, spoke shave, metal, similar to a plane, for scraping thin shavings off irregular wooden objects such as spokes of a wheel; makers mark: MADE IN USA, NO 151
Description: Tool, spoke shave, metal, similar to a plane, for scraping thin shavings off irregular wooden objects such as spokes of a wheel; makers mark: MADE IN USA, NO 151