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We have the opportunity to potentially acquire the below item but we don’t actually know what it is and it’s bugging us. Can anyone offer any advice or best guesses as to what it might be please? The description is that given to it at its current home.
“Varnished elm wood rack or stand of unknown use. Solid supports at either end have shaped cut-out panels at their bases, between low ‘feet’, the top edge of the supports cut with a double scallop. Narrower side rails join these supports. One is cut on the inside with a 1cm deep rebate; the other is formed of two rails with a 1cm gap at the same height.”
The piece itself is approx 40cm long X 15cm wide (I don’t have the object in front of me so that’s from memory I’m afraid) so it’s much smaller than you might think from the picture.
Many thanks,
Emma
Emma Sayer
Collections Development Officer (Social History)
Beamish, the Living Museum of the North
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