From collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Collection
Four-legged spinning wheel
Small, wooden, four-legged flax spinning wheel with flat table, grooved wheel. "FARNHAM Near Owego" impressed into base. This four-legged wheel is missing part(s). [Note: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/198156.html says Joel Farnhan was a wheelwright and cabinet maker who moved from PA to Owego NY in 1794.By the 1820s he had a well-established milling and wheelwright business which passed on to his youngest son Frederick, who began producing his own wheels by the 1840s.]
Details
This spinning wheel is missing its whorl gizmo per a visitor 7/2015. The top spindle for this spinning wheel was placed on body of the spinning wheel 2018 for safe keeping. The four legs rather than three is unusual; the double posts to hold the spindle and the wheel are unusual, seems Pennsylvanian to Nancy Hillenberg (spinner) Sept 2018.
