Description: Crimping Iron was a popular tool for Marcelled Hair used in the 1920s, often in conjunction with a Bobbed Cut. Used to create crimps in hair. Iron was heated and used to make ridges.
Description: Sheet metal, flat blade, cast iron handle, curves down and is riveted to blade. Handle, on top, horizontal prtion, ios divided in two, with gentle curves. Appears to have been coated with zinc or silver paint.
Description: Two wooden taps for collecting sap from trees to make maple syrup, one grooved alongto direct the syrup, 11" long), one hollow tube, 5.25" long
Description: Dr Willis B. Watson practiced in Tremont in the late 1880's. This Stethoscope was one of many objects in his medical collection.Four additional horns in leather bag.
Other, Medical chemicals used to compound medicine in 1880-1900
Date:
03/30/2021
Description: Black leather case containing 20 glass tubes of medical chemicals. Some empty. 2 without corks. Pocket has folded paper labels identifying more drug names and amounts. Potassium Chloras Tincture Opii-empty Spirit Amonia Arom-empty no cork Potassium Iodide Bismuth sus nit? empty Activated etsodii? Potassium Bromide-empty Pulverised Opii Ex Bella Plume. Acetas Morph Sulphur Quim Sulphur ? Quim Sulphur gr/1 - empty Chloral Hyd - empty black powder unreadable label Liq Ferri subsulphur no cork Hq. Cl. Mite Puly Ipec & Opii Tr. Ipec et Ophii - empty Pil Cathar Co [show more]
Description: Black leather kit containing medical instruments such as scissors, tweezers, small blades and probing instruments. Manufactured by Codman and Shurtleff , Surgical and Dental Instruments. 13 and 14 Tremont Street, Boston. Contains 14 separate instruments. Most instrument average 4 1/2 inches in length.
Description: Coleman's Instant-Lite Model 4A gas iron with a "cool blue" handle. Turquoise body and handle, with steel-colored bottom and gas tank. It was made between 1929 and 1948 in blue, turquoise, green, tan, and black enamel. Some other colors were not sold in the United States. Red and ivory-colored irons were sold only in Canada and speckled blue irons only in Australia. Coleman made over 30 different models of irons. The blue Model 4A is the one most often found today. The pump was used to build up pressure in the fuel tank. Then a match was lit underneath the iron to make a flame inside the iron. Fuel irons were an improvement over earlier irons that had to be heated on the stove or heated by charcoal. Fuel irons were lighter in weight and their temperature more even, but they made ironing a potentially dangerous job. Gasoline, alcohol, carbide-acetylene, kerosene, and other fuels could cause a fire or explode. Some irons were heated by natural gas from a gaslight or other source in the house. \Donated by Beth Goodwin Reed, Manset ME [show more]
Description: Crocheted red and white apron made by Reta (Farley?) Torrey. Lived in Bass Harbor on Leighton Road. Later married ____ Torrey and moved to Manset. Donated by Beth Goodwin Reed, Manset ME
Description: 6 hand made fishing lines on wooden spools with 2 oblong lead weights and 4 tear drop shaped lead weights and 8 fish hooks donated by the children of Charles Orville and Esther Trask.
Description: Metal and wood potato masher. Donated by childrem of Charles Orville and Esther Trask. Probably belonged to Vesta Gott of Bernard, Tremont, Maine. Found in attic of house belonging to Vesta and Freeman Gott.