String dispenser
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Ebony
Measurements
93 mm (Height); 64 mm (Diameter)
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549097
Summary
An ebony string dispenser shaped as a beehive. Top screwed to a circular bevelled plinth with three cylinder legs. Bobbin inside dispenser with bladed brass finial emerging through top of dispenser. Inscribed - Ebony ? Beehive 70 D (on base)
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward Collection, left to the National Trust in the will of Miss Ward in 1994
Marks and inscriptions
Ebony ? Beehive 70 D (on base)