Lace maker's horse, for resting pillow whilst working. The horse is carpentered from a dark coloured wood with a bent semicircular wooden frame at the top. The horse has three legs braced at the bottom with wooden cross bar secured with nails. [EH [OPS Move] 21/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Lace maker's horse, for resting pillow whilst working. The horse is carpentered from a dark coloured wood with a bent semicircular wooden frame at the top. The horse has three legs braced at the bottom with wooden cross bar secured with nails. [EH [OPS Move] 21/6/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Buckinghamshire Hoggeston
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Mrs Hodgson; PRM source Mrs Hodgson
Date / Period: Date made: 1800-1900
Date collected: By 1944
Acquisition information: Donated: 1944
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Process Carpentered, Process Carved, Process Nailed, Process Perforated, Process Bent
Dimensions: Width: max 490 mm, Depth: max 520 mm, Height: max 610 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1944.6.4
Research and responses: OED online: Horse: A frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported. (Often having legs.) [AP 26/09/2006]
There is nothing to say that this lace has come from Hoggeston in Buckinghamshire except that other items in this collection came from there including the lace pillow so that assumption has been made that it did [AP 31/01/2007]

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