Tool/Implement

2 wooden Clean Sweep broom handles attached together with leather. Probably used to thresh beans.

Wood and metal viewer used for viewing stereoscopic postcards. Missing one pane of glass in the lens.

A pair of hames, used with a horse collar. For more information, go here.

Ox shoe

Wooden spigot used on cider barrel

Draw shave used for shaping wood. Labeled: J.E. Minott & Co. Warwick, MA., Hedge, tool, and iron forger, formerly Asa Wheeler hedge tool business located in the north part of Warwick., which Minott purchased in 1849 from Wheeler.
See this link for more information about J. E. Minott & Co.

Homemade sap yoke

Made in Orange MA in the early 1900s
For more information on the New Home Sewing Machine Company of Orange, MA, click here.

Advertisement in 1921

Clock made in 1838 used in the home of Charles F. Hastings on Richmond Road in the 1880's

Tote Board found at Town Poor Farm, Winchester Road, in 1985