Cutting tool, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:

1950.1342.1

Community:

New York, Mount Lebanon

Description

Forged steel cutting tool consisting of a conical head, a tapered octagonal shaft, and a truncated triangular cross-bar. Near the wider end of this crossbar is a steel wedge-shaped stop bolted to the crossbar. A 3/32" thick steel plate is riveted to the sides of the crossbar whose edges extend 3/16" above the surface of the crossbar. The two edges are beveled to a knife edge.

New York Mount Lebanon Church Family

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