Rail, Peg

Section of peg rail, Canterbury, NH

Object ID:
1972.17516.1
Community:
New Hampshire, Canterbury
Description

Pine peg rail and cleat originally set into plaster, with two long, graceful birch pegs (5 1/2" exposed, 1/2" diameter threaded tenons, 1 1/16" diameter heads) turned between-centers. Both ends of face rail coped and front arrises rounded over. Peg tenons 1 3/4" long which thread through both the face rail and the plaster cleat. Painted light blue.

New Hampshire Canterbury

New Hampshire Canterbury

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Shaker Museum Rail, Peg. https://shakermuseum.us/object/?id=3774. Accessed on September 20, 2024

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