Hall, Earl and Dolly
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Cyclone Seeder
Description:
Sack is of much patched canvas, opening to ca. 45 x 46 cm (extended). Base is of green wood, greatest L & W being 39 x16 cm. "Cyclone " device is of metal. After Mrs. Francis Wallace died, Shorty Wallace brought the seeder with other things to the Hall's auction.
Date of Object:
ca. 1925
Accession #:
983.55.01
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Scythe Handle
Description:
This worn and weathered scythe handle is particularly worn and partly rotted in the area where the blade was attached. A bolt passes through that section and has a bar of metal attached. One wooden handle has disappeared leaving the metal which was its base. Hall says a Mount Currie native used the scythe to which this handle once belonged. See Eaton's 1901 Spring and Summer Catalogue pp. 283 for a snath (scythe handle) priced at 65c.
Date of Object:
ca. 1900
Accession #:
983.55.03
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Weight Beam Scale
Description:
The scale, once polished, now rusted , has a steel beam which has a trace of markings. Poise, rusted, seems to be intact. Heavier weights and the metal which suspended them are missing. Lighter weight, also rusted, still slides along the bar. Earl Hall dug this up when he lived in a house built by C. Marinus, which has now burned; on land now belonging to McGuire [D. Callaway].
Date of Object:
ca. 1950
Accession #:
983.55.05
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