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You searched for: Contributor: Great Cranberry Island Historical SocietyPlace: [blank]Subject: BusinessesType: Object
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Wood chisel with wood handle and brass ferrule
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wood chisel with wood handle and brass ferrule
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, wood chisel with wood handle, fancy brass ferrule; makers mark: (illegible)
Wood mallet
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wood mallet
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, wooden mallet
Double handled spoke shave
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Double handled spoke shave
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, double handled spoke shave, probably for smoothing a ship's mast
Wood plane 21"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Wood plane 21"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, wood plane, 21" (Acquired by donor in Lancaster County Pennsylvania ca. 1968.)
Wood plane for door trim
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Wood plane for door trim
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, specialty wood plane, 14" . Tool for fashioning trim around doors. Acquired by donor in Lancaster County Pennsylvania ca. 1968.
Broken wood frame for handline branded J. C. PIKE
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Broken wood frame for handline branded J. C. PIKE
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, empty wooden frame for fishing handline, broken into two halves and just pushed together; branded "J. C. PIKE." on both halves
Gauge used for marking lumber
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Gauge used for marking lumber
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, marking gauge used for lumber marking. Acquired by donor in Lancaster County Pennsylvania ca. 1968.
Wood auger with T-shaped handle
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wood auger with T-shaped handle
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, wood auger with T-shaped handle for making 2" hole in wood
Rasp tool 18"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Rasp tool 18"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, rasp 18"
Wood plane
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wood plane
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, wood plane, used to make smooth, or remove thickness, of boards and planks
Wooden barrel with fishing twine
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Wooden barrel with fishing twine
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Large bundle of fishing twine
Brass lobster gauge
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Brass lobster gauge
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Tool, lobster gauge, brass, used to determine whether a lobster is of legal size to be kept. From the lobster's eye socket notch to the end of its carapace, it must be no larger than 5" and no smaller than 3-3/16". This guage has those two dimensions built in
Large fishing hand line with weight
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Large fishing hand line with weight
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, large hand line with weight (for fishing)
Herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, large herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle. The net itself is 11' long, the metal hoop 5.5' in diameter, the wooden handle 10' long, the overall length (hoop + handle) is 15.5'. Net was found upstairs in Wesley Bracey Sr.'s workshop (before the building was moved and became the Cranberry House).
Wooden buoys (lobster floats) and net floats on a rope
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Wooden buoys (lobster floats) and net floats on a rope
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, 4 wooden buoys (lobster floats) and 8 round net floats strung on a rope; all buoys are shaped like clubs with a hole to attach a rope on one end. all net floats are shaped like beads with a hole through the center. one buoy has carved initials WFS and is 12.5" L x 4" W x 1.5" H; one buoy has carved initial X and is 13.5" L x 3" W x 2.75" H; the other two buoys have no marks and are 10.5" L x 3.5" W x 2" H, and 12" L x 4" W x 2.5" H. the eight round net floats are varying sizes round and oval, from 3" L to 5" L [show more]
Large fishing handline with weights on wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Large fishing handline with weights on wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, large handline with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame
Buoy (lobster float), white & green
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Buoy (lobster float), white & green
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishng equipment, buoy (lobster float), white & green
Fishing line weight
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fishing line weight
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, fishing line weight 2.5"
Fishing hand line spool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fishing hand line spool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 13.5", with 2 rungs
Fishing hand line spool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fishing hand line spool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 14", with 3 rungs
Wooden and foam lobster buoys on a rope
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wooden and foam lobster buoys on a rope
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, 3 wooden and 5 foam buoys (lobster floats), strung on a rope; wooden buoys: a) bullet shape with white bottom and orange top, hole on top for handle, hole through bottom body for trap rope, 18.5" L x 4" W x 4" D; b) bullet shape with blotches of white, green, and yellow all over the body and handle, branded with "98?????" carved letters ?VV, on the another side carved letters "?ILLE", on another side carved letters "SOW??I?", with black rubber strip tacked on two opposite sides to make a loop for attaching trap rope, 25" L x 5.5" W x 4.5" D; c) log shape with white bottom and orange top and handle branded with "PL ?UNKER" and "BU???R" with canvas strip tacked on the flat bottom to make aloop for attaching trap rope, but broke so a rubber stip was tacked on top of it for the same purpose, 17" L x 7.5" W x 6.25" D; (and 5 foam floats removed for display outside Shaw cabin 2015) [show more]
Wooden buoys and decoys, some from 1920s
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wooden buoys and decoys, some from 1920s
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Buoys and decoys. Collection of 10 wooden buoys of various shapes and sizes, and two wooden decoys. 1. Blue and white fish-shaped wooden buoy with Richmond name on it. LHA 7519. 2. White, wooden with EW carved onto small piece of wood affixed to buoy (perhaps Edgar White). Hole for handle but handle is missing. 3. Black, yellow, and red bottom, wood, with Numbers 360 or 9 with rubber strap on end. Log with flat bottom. W. Bracy carved, ca. 1920s 4. Mushroom shape, no handle with EN White 1442 with iron ring. See the other "White" above and below. White fished 1930s to 1960s 5. Red bullet shaped, wooden with wooden handle. Branded on it C. Alley, 967 and 805 and 7193; (The name Richman is written on masking tape affixed to buoy.) 6. Red, yellow, and black, wooden handle and rubber strap, Part of last name or complete last name is 'Auy'. Red black yellow chipped paint, with rubber or leather strap and handle broken off, long crack. Has a number on it. 7872 branded on it. 7. Wood, white, mushroom shape with half black handle. "1442" and "N White", with iron ring on base. Perhaps turned on a lathe. Unusual. See the other "White" buoy. 8-10 Three buoys tied together: Blue and white, fish shaped, with Richardson 900. 11. Decoys. Wood with post on one end (neck) and B.S. carved on body. B.S. could indicate Bert Stanley or Boynton Stanley, perhaps gift of Jim Bradley - flat bottom, twine attached to each end to connect to other decoys. (See also 1000.0.1296 primitive decoys in museum.) [show more]
Large fishing hand line with weights with wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Large fishing hand line with weights with wood frame
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Fishing gear, large fishing hand line with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame
Rectangular basket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers, Basket
  • Businesses, Farming
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Rectangular basket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Basket, woven wood-splint basket, rectangular, low
Large hand line with weights
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Large hand line with weights
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Large hand line with weights and initials JLS