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| Hand painted SEA FOOD sign Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Hand painted SEA FOOD sign Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Hand painted sign reading SEA FOOD. Sign is painted on Masonite (or a similar product) and has a white background and black letters. The front of the sign is scratched and shows signs of age. The sign came from Stanley's Fish Market, Northeast Harbor, operated by David L. Stanley. To see a photograph showing this sign or one like it, go to https://nehl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/5993 | |||
| Harpoon or "Lilly Iron" with swivel piece on the barb Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Harpoon or "Lilly Iron" with swivel piece on the barb Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, "Lilly Iron" (harpoon) from Wesley Bracy, Jr. with swiveling piece on the barb that folds flat for easy penetration, but opens crosswise for increased grip, thus preventing loss of the fish; Bruce Komusin inserted a wooden boomstick handle and secured it with rope for display purposes. | |||
| Wooden needles for mending nets Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden needles for mending nets Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear. Collection of twelve wooden tools: (A) Eight wooden needles for mending nets, making and repairing bait bag netting: snowshoe-shaped implements with U-shaped end, closed tangs, and pointed ends. (B) Net needle: wood with large rectangular eye hole. (C) Wood rectangle with hole in the middle and a loop of rope through two other holes: lobster fishing assemby that keeps the line from getting tangled. (D and E) Two wood implements that come to a smooth point. [show more] | |||
| Harpoon head from Victor White's old garage Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Harpoon head from Victor White's old garage Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear. Harpoon head: wood handle with threaded metal collar and 5-pronged metal barbed harpoon head. Wood handle is a sawed-off tree limb; metal collar possibly an old pipe fitting; harpoon head is inserted into handle; collar turns freely. One tine missing its barb. From Victor White's old garage summer 2013. | |||
| Head of a branding iron: W.E. BUNKER Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Head of a branding iron: W.E. BUNKER Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear. Head of a branding iron: W.E. BUNKER. Iron head, no handle. | |||
| Trawl line on wood frame with lead sinker and large hook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Trawl line on wood frame with lead sinker and large hook Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear. Trawl line wound around wooden frame with heavy lead sinker and large metal hook. | |||
| Trawl line with wood frame Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Trawl line with wood frame Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear. Trawl line wound around wooden frame. Wooden handle is nailed to frame (unusual). | |||
| Round metal fishing buoy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Round metal fishing buoy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear. Metal Fishing Buoy, round. It is stamped on one side PHILLIPS PATENT GUARANTEED LIGHTWEIGHT MODEL. and on the other, PATENT No 331163 NOTICE OF INFRINGEMENT REWARDED. The patent number is from Great Britain. | |||
| Edgar White's branding iron Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Edgar White's branding iron Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Branding iron, long handle with heavy head: "E.N. White 1442". 1442 was Edgar Nelson White's number, and black and white were his colors. Edgar was Victor White's brother. With reminiscences of the family in the 1960s by Charles Liebow including Edgar and Alice White, their Dog Point Road house and outbuilding "Duffys", their grandsons Chuck and Larry Pipes, and working as sternman for Edgar. | |||
| Glass float from herring fishing net Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Glass float from herring fishing net Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, glass float, round, aqua colored, with pontil mark (where glass was blown, then removed from pipe), fully enclosed in a stout twine net (with unusually wide openings) which would be attached to the edge of a herring net | |||
| Branding iron 7327 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Branding iron 7327 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, Metal Branding Iron to burn "7327" onto lobster floats or buoys, presumably. | |||
| Branding iron RH STANLEY Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Branding iron RH STANLEY Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, branding iron to burn "RH STANLEY" onto wooden lobster buoys | |||
| Sailmakers thimble or net mender Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sailmakers thimble or net mender Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Boat tools. Sailmakers thimble (a.k.a. net mender per donor), leather and metal with star on thimble. Thumb slips through hole and metal thimble is used to push needle through dense material. | |||
| Broken wood frame for handline branded J. C. PIKE Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Broken wood frame for handline branded J. C. PIKE Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, empty wooden frame for fishing handline, broken into two halves and just pushed together; branded "J. C. PIKE." on both halves | |||
| Wooden barrel with fishing twine Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden barrel with fishing twine Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Large bundle of fishing twine | |||
| Brass lobster gauge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Brass lobster gauge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Tool, lobster gauge, brass, used to determine whether a lobster is of legal size to be kept. From the lobster's eye socket notch to the end of its carapace, it must be no larger than 5" and no smaller than 3-3/16". This guage has those two dimensions built in | |||
| Large fishing hand line with weight Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Large fishing hand line with weight Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, large hand line with weight (for fishing) | |||
| Herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, large herring net on metal hoop with wooden handle. The net itself is 11' long, the metal hoop 5.5' in diameter, the wooden handle 10' long, the overall length (hoop + handle) is 15.5'. Net was found upstairs in Wesley Bracey Sr.'s workshop (before the building was moved and became the Cranberry House). | |||
| Wooden buoys (lobster floats) and net floats on a rope Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden buoys (lobster floats) and net floats on a rope Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, 4 wooden buoys (lobster floats) and 8 round net floats strung on a rope; all buoys are shaped like clubs with a hole to attach a rope on one end. all net floats are shaped like beads with a hole through the center. one buoy has carved initials WFS and is 12.5" L x 4" W x 1.5" H; one buoy has carved initial X and is 13.5" L x 3" W x 2.75" H; the other two buoys have no marks and are 10.5" L x 3.5" W x 2" H, and 12" L x 4" W x 2.5" H. the eight round net floats are varying sizes round and oval, from 3" L to 5" L [show more] | |||
| Large fishing handline with weights on wood frame Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Large fishing handline with weights on wood frame Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, large handline with weights, wrapped around a wooden frame | |||
| Buoy (lobster float), white & green Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Buoy (lobster float), white & green Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishng equipment, buoy (lobster float), white & green | |||
| Fishing line weight Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Fishing line weight Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, fishing line weight 2.5" | |||
| Fishing hand line spool Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Fishing hand line spool Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 13.5", with 2 rungs | |||
| Fishing hand line spool Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Fishing hand line spool Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, fishing hand line spool, 14", with 3 rungs | |||
| Wooden and foam lobster buoys on a rope Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wooden and foam lobster buoys on a rope Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Fishing gear, 3 wooden and 5 foam buoys (lobster floats), strung on a rope; wooden buoys: a) bullet shape with white bottom and orange top, hole on top for handle, hole through bottom body for trap rope, 18.5" L x 4" W x 4" D; b) bullet shape with blotches of white, green, and yellow all over the body and handle, branded with "98?????" carved letters ?VV, on the another side carved letters "?ILLE", on another side carved letters "SOW??I?", with black rubber strip tacked on two opposite sides to make a loop for attaching trap rope, 25" L x 5.5" W x 4.5" D; c) log shape with white bottom and orange top and handle branded with "PL ?UNKER" and "BU???R" with canvas strip tacked on the flat bottom to make aloop for attaching trap rope, but broke so a rubber stip was tacked on top of it for the same purpose, 17" L x 7.5" W x 6.25" D; (and 5 foam floats removed for display outside Shaw cabin 2015) [show more] |