Stabbing awl, Canterbury, NH

Object ID:

1957.9389.1

Community:

New Hampshire, Canterbury

Description

The metal blade of the awl is 1 3/8" long, circular in cross-section, and tapers to a point. The blade is set into a turned-wood haft (or handle). The haft has a 3/8" long section for a ferrule, but the ferrule is absent. The diameter of the handle gets increasingly wider and continues for 1 1/32". The body of the handle has two scribe lines just before the handle tapers exponentially; it then flattens out, and ends with a mushroom-shaped base. This composition creates an elongated neck of 1 1/8".

New Hampshire Canterbury

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