- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 108.04.1162 a-f
- Description
- A carabiner with five pitons hanging from it:(a) a light aluminum oval-shaped carabiner (10.0cx5.0cm wide) with a spring-lock gate mechanism and a safety bar. On one side engraved “SKI HUT” on the other “H G”. Ski Hut was a Berkley CA. sports company.(b) a malleable metal vertical piton (9.70x3.30c…
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- Title
- Climbing Piton
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal
- Description
- A carabiner with five pitons hanging from it:(a) a light aluminum oval-shaped carabiner (10.0cx5.0cm wide) with a spring-lock gate mechanism and a safety bar. On one side engraved “SKI HUT” on the other “H G”. Ski Hut was a Berkley CA. sports company.(b) a malleable metal vertical piton (9.70x3.30cm wide) made out of soft iron, with flat blade and handle, engraved “TOP” on one side of the handle “H G” on the other side. It appears to hand-forged European.(c) a malleable metal vertical piton (9.50x3.50cm) made out of soft iron, with flat blade and handle, engraved “TOP” on one side of the handle “H G” on the other side. It appears to be hand-forged European.(d) a high-quality steel, chromalloy horizontal piton (11.70x 2.0cm wide 3.0cm high) a flat blade at one end and raised ‘handle’ at the other with a round hole to put a carabiner through. “LOST”, Yvon Chouinard’s early diamond-shaped logo, “ARROW”.(e) a malleable metal horizontal piton (11.0x2.0cm widex3.0 high) made out of soft iron, with a flat blade and handle, engraved “LONGWARE” on one side of the handle “T T” on the other side. It appears to hand-forged. (f) a horizontal metal piton (12.0x3.3cm wide) with the blade, instead of being flat, is positioned slightly sideways; engraved in script on the ‘handle’ portion “Charlet Moser” in block letters “CHAMONIX” . There is a white shop label glued on one side of the blade, in blue lettering “3 7 Premier Cycle & Sports 110 F”.
- Subject
- sports
- climbing
- Hans Gmoser
- Credit
- Gift of Hans and Margaret Gmoser, Harvie Heights, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 108.04.1162 a-f
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