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Great wheel spinning wheel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Great wheel spinning wheel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Wheel from a 'walking' a.k.a. 'great' spinning wheel. Smooth wooden wheel, 45" diameter with brass core in hub of wheel. Rusted nail heads visible where wood overlaps on exterior of wheel and also where several spokes meet the wheel. No other parts of this walking wheel have been located. (It may have come from the Liebow house originally.) This wheel was installed on a 2018 donation of a spinning wheel base from Islesford that fits perfectly. [show more] | |||
Four-legged spinning wheel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Four-legged spinning wheel Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Small, wooden, four-legged flax spinning wheel with flat table, grooved wheel. "FARNHAM Near Owego" impressed into base. This four-legged wheel is missing part(s). [Note: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/198156.html says Joel Farnhan was a wheelwright and cabinet maker who moved from PA to Owego NY in 1794.By the 1820s he had a well-established milling and wheelwright business which passed on to his youngest son Frederick, who began producing his own wheels by the 1840s.] [show more] |