Wool spinning wheel stamped "BB", Sabbathday Lake, ME

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Wool spinning wheel stamped "BB", Sabbathday Lake, ME

ca. 1797

Object ID:

2004.16.1

Community:

Maine, Sabbathday Lake

Makers

Shaker

Description

Birch table and head support; legs are chestnut; head post is birch with a bone ferrule. The head is birch, iron, and leather; wheel has an oak rim, chestnut spokes, and birch hub.

Notes

The initials "BB" are believed to stand for Barnabas Briggs, a trustee at Sabbathday Lake from 1794 to 1801. However, spinning wheel scholar Michael Taylor speculated that the initials refer to Benjamin Bailey, who was a trustee and wheel-maker at Alfred.

Maine Sabbathday Lake

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