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Title: Outside calipers for Plymouth Cordage Company Accession Number: 2001.116.ab Category: TOOLS - ROPEMAKING Type: outside calipers Maker: Kerby & Bro. Place: USA, NY, New York Date: before 1947 Materials: wood; brass Description: Outside calipers from Plymouth Cordage Co., North Plymouth, Massachusetts; also called a rope caliper or rope gauge. Wood base has table printed with various circumference and diameter measurements with which to calculate the weight of rope. On front "PLYMOUTH/ MANILA CORDAGE". On reverse "PLYMOUTH CORDAGE CO./ NORTH PLYMOUTH/ MASS."

Mystic Seaport Image ID m326088    Information regarding reproductions