securing the leather and upholstery (USNM 59.1847. design. An iron hinge bar is part of the equipment 



fig. 91d). The third artifact is an elegantly designed for folding back the top of a chaise (USNM 60.178, 



brass fitting for a leather curtain or strap (USNM fig. 91a). There arc several horseshoes, two whole 



59.1736, fig. 83j, ill. 89). It is fitted with a copper shoes and numerous fragments (fig. 91i and j). 



rivet at the stationary end for securing leather or Finally, the handle shaft and decorative attachment 



cloth; just below the ri\et is a recessed groove and of an iron currycomb (USNM 59.2077, fig. 91f) 



shelf, perhaps to receive a reinforced edge; to the recalls Mercer's purchase of "1 curry comb and 



lower part of this is hinged a long handle cut in a leaf brush" in 1726. 



