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Sickle or Reap Hooks


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      Date: 1880 -

Description: These sickles or reap hooks have a curved blade made of metal. Stamped on the blades is R.B.R 5 No. 0250. They also have a round wooden handle this is 15cm long. The Howard family used these on their property at Woodsdale to cut the grass in the early 1900s.

Format: realia
Object: sickles
Material: metal;  wood (material)

Titles:
Sickle or Reap Hooks

Subjects: sicklesfarm & garden equipment

People/Orgs: Howard, Richard

Places: Woodsdale, Tasmania

Institution: Levendale and Woodsdale History Rooms Inc.

Object number: LHR_PH0057

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