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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:American
Title:Hand guard
Type:Textile Working Tool; Woodworking Tool
Materials:Leather
Place Made:North America; United States
Accession Number:  MH SK B.27.L.13.1
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College

Description:
An old shoemaker's hand guard or protector, consisting simply of a roughly three inch strip of leather, lapped and sewed to form a circular band, with an inch and a half circular opening cut out for the thumb. Slipped over the palm of the hand, the leather protected the hand while sewing. Diam. about 2 3/4".

Subjects:
Leather

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