Saddle leather with pattern marked
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Saddle leather with pattern marked

DateCirca 1970
Mediumleather
Dimensions16 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (41.9 × 16.5 cm)
Object number1977.28.12.3
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionA piece of leather with a pattern markings for cutting out the palm sole.ProvenanceIsaac F. Manchester was born in 1914 in Tiverton, RI. In the mid 1930s he came to work at his uncle's (Thomas S. Manchester) sailloft on Second Street in New Bedford which had started in 1908. After the war, Thomas Manchester moved the business to Elm Street in Dartmouth, Mass. Isaac took over the Manchesgter Yacht Sails in the 1940s and worked there until he retired in early 1970s when the business was run by his son, Isaac.
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