From collection Mount Desert Island Historical Society - Objects Collection
Oars
Long curved oars with flat square blade. One oar tipped with copper and the other with tin. Leather hand grips. Leather wrapped in middle of oar for the oar locks. Donor info . came from house of Chester Rich in Somesville. Rich married a Smith of Somesville. Marked H.L. Smith.
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Accession Card
6’ 4" l 5" w at blade.
MDIHS: Somesville Museum
12/17/1997
Oars; Oars; Long curved oars with flat square blade. One oar tipped with copper and the other with tin. Leather hand grips. Leather wrapped in middle of oar for the oar locks. Donor info . came from house of Chester Rich in Somesville. Rich married a Smith of Somesville. Marked H.L. Smith.
09/19/2024
