Pulley block
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
229 mm (Length)98 mm (W)57 mm (D)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332498
Summary
Pulley block. Construction, sheaves wood and fiddle shaped, two iron strips go down inside sheaves supporting wooden upper pulley with wooden pin and iron lower pulley with iron pin. Top iron strips have pin and ferrule for rope over sheaves. One of the two against CPW Item 420 (illustrated) - 'Fiddle blocks no longer in use'
Provenance
CPW Item 420 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.