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Carter No.: 148b

Handlist description: Horse-hair fly whisk

Card/Transcription No.: 148ac


148. Three horse-hair fly-whisks

1. Position Under chariot-wheels 133 & 134. Cp. also 168

(a) Length about 35. Handle a cylinder of wood, carved to a lion's head and neck, & covered with thin gesso & gold leaf. Length of handle 9. Diam., at junction with whisk, 4.7. Perforated right through head, ending in open mouth with a hole .8 in diam. Whisk Base a bundle of reeds, covered or bound round with leather. To this leather were attached small tufts of black horse-hair

(b) & (c) Exactly similar, but rather longer (circ. 40). Handle of (b) 8 long: diam 4 " " (c) 9.7 " : " 4.8.

Treatment Sprayed with celluloid in amyl acetate.

Card no. 148ac relating to Carter no. 148b
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