Carrier or basket handle bending form, Canterbury, NH

Object ID:

1961.12866.1

Community:

New Hampshire, Canterbury

Description

Basket handle-bending form of birch (Betula spp.) held together by steel flat-head wood screws and 7/16" diameter threaded rods, washers, and four octagonal nuts. Handle blanks are bent into the form rather than over it. Three rows of 1/8" x 3/16" whittled birch pegs set into the sides and bottom of the form at 1 3/8" spacing to hold the handle blanks in alignment. The handle blanks were apparently held tight against the bottom of the mold by a 3/16" overlap of a cap strip on each edge of the inside, so that the handle blanks would have had to have been cut to an exact length before steaming.

New Hampshire Canterbury Church Family

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