Jack
Category
Machinery and industrial devices
Date
Unknown
Materials
Iron, Lead, Wood
Measurements
552 mm (H)330 mm (W)318 mm (Length)203 mm (W)
Place of origin
Rouen
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1334201
Summary
Iron jack mounted on 'L' shaped wooden support. Flywheel made up of thin iron cross with four lead weights at ends. Wooden winding drum. On window ledge and presumably CPW Item 335- 'Iron jack fr Rouen France, with key. South window sill.' Key not with it but a number of unconnected items secured to its' wood support.
Provenance
CPW Item 335 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.