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1948.6.1

Rope of plaited horse hair, with wooden end 'toggle'.

1948.6.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Rope of plaited horse hair, with wooden end 'toggle'.
Cultural groups
English
Date / Period
Date made: 1800-1900
Date collected
By 1948
Acquisition information
Donated: 1948
Materials and processes
Material Rope, Material Horse Hair Animal, Material Wood Plant, Process Plaited, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 2000 mm approx
Object numbers
Accession number: 1948.6.1
Research and responses

According to a website dedicated to the Pratley surname the 'The very first Pratley was originally William Spratley, who came to Leafield, Oxfordshire from a town near Banbury in around 1620. ... And there are still Pratleys living in Leafield today.' Leafield is only 5 miles away from Stonesfield. There is a William Frank Pratley of W.F. Pratley and Sons Decorators at same address as this Pratley. William Frank Pratley was born in 1880, there is no record of his father only his mother Elizabeth Pratley, born 1862, his grandfather was Philip Pratley born 1834, died 1917, a farm labourer. Frank was less than two years younger than Philip's youngest child Sarah. http://www.pratley.info/person/detail.php?person=8492 [accessed 22/06/2015] [MJD (Verve) 22/06/2015]

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