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Date
1900 – 1930
Material
skin; wood; metal
Catalogue Number
102.07.0015
Description
A pair of bellows, wood in teardrop shape pointed at blower end and cut to handles at the other. Cutout round hole in one board for air intake. Black leather nailed to board edges for air chamber and around hinge area and metal blower. Blower is a metal sheet wrapped to become a pointed cone with c…
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Title
Bellows
Date
1900 – 1930
Material
skin; wood; metal
Dimensions
3.2 x 19.7 x 44.5 cm
Description
A pair of bellows, wood in teardrop shape pointed at blower end and cut to handles at the other. Cutout round hole in one board for air intake. Black leather nailed to board edges for air chamber and around hinge area and metal blower. Blower is a metal sheet wrapped to become a pointed cone with concentrated hole at the other. Marks: various scribbles on wood on non-hole side: “VWJ . . . 2.00 . . . L 14”
Subject
households
decorative
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
102.07.0015
Images
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