Description: Temple toggle iron. Handle wrapped with line and tar. Wooden toggle pin missing. Pin fits through spearhead. When lodged in whale the pin snapped, opening the blade so that it remained inside the skin.
Description: This is a wooden game comprised of an outer box with the traditional tic tac toe configuration on the top. Each square of play has a hole drilled in it. Inside the box are three cylinders with their handles exposed on the right of the box so a player can place a marble in a hole and turn the cylinder. Each cylinder has 9 holes. There is lots of skill involved in playing this game. Memory is definitely a factor. There are two of these games in the collection. [show more]
Description: Sword in scabbard. Handle wrapped in snake skin. Brass hardware. Two rings on scabbard for belt. Lender info - parade sword of Benjamin Thomas Atherton first Maine Heavy Artillery Company C - Civil War.
Description: Boston Fowler. English barrel in 12 gauge. Pineapple finial on triggerguard tang, ornate engraving and silver barrel inlays at breach mark this as prize possession. Used with 00 buckshot or birdshot for deer or bird hunting. Silver front inset. Marked with initials W.K. Tower of London Foundry mark. Lockplate marked William Read Boston. Ramrod intact. Ignition: caplock Wood: walnut Caliber: 12ga
Description: Leather shot bag bound around neck of green glass bottle. Neck stuffed with hemp. Dark brown leather. Edges stitched together. Small worn patch.
Description: Marked William Read Boston. Ramrod intact. Lock by Read & Son probably a replacement, it does not match drum. Full stock. Brass buttplate, iron furniture. Ignition: caplock Wood: walnut fullstock Caliber: 12 gage Donor info - property of John Somes son of Abraham Somes.
Description: 1974 bill from D.W. Bartlett Co. for survey work in Somesville, probably related to the transfer of property between Francis Grindle and the MDI Historical Society. Survey crew charged $22.50 per hour; research and plan creation was $10; mileage was $.12/mile.
Description: Wooden cap nailed on each end. Marked G. Freeman 1770, H.G. Somes 1870. Donor info - this is the well known Somes Powder horn. Morris Somes was to be the next to sign.
Description: Narrow neck. Design on side - two pistols crossed, stars, eagle carrying spears and shield, two flags, 16 stars, cannon balls and anchor. Similar to those made by the American Flask and Cap Co. during the 1850s.
Description: U.S. Model 1842 Musket..69 Caliber. Charge: 70gr ffg, paper cartridge.Marked, “Harper’s Ferry 1844 (may be 1849)”. Percussion. Smooth bore. Metal ramrod under barrel. Stud for affixing bayonet under muzzle. Visitor info - Springfield Service Rifle, made in Harper’s Ferry. Standard infantry arm. Designed as smoothbores, many were later rifled. Many saw use in early months of Civil War. This piece may be a Mexican War piece, or may be a relic from Bloodless Aroostook War. [show more]
Description: Brown Bess Musket. Lock missing. Originally a flint lock musket. This type of arm was most widely used by both sides in the American Revolution. Having an effective range of less than a hundred yards, these guns were emplyed in massed fire. The smoke from the first volley obscured the enemy, so subsequent volleys were delivered in the right general directions. In 72 or 76 caliber, the ball was nearly 3/4” in diameter. The gun was converted to a caplock civilian shotgun, probably between 1820 and 1835. .76 caliber. [show more]
Description: Pair of ice grippers worn on shoes. Four spikes on bottom. One has leather toe strap attached with copper wire. Piece of hemp attached to wire. Leather stiff. Donor info - from Fred Wiggin House in Town Hill.
Description: Two rods joined together by leather strap and rope. One rod was held while the other was swung in an arc and brought down on beans, peas etc. Donor info - used by donor’s father, Charles W. Kittredge, to beat out buckwheat and beans. Catalog record card indicates that this may have been donated in 1959.
Description: Long wooden pole with eight iron tines which have turned under tips. Tine held taut with twine. Resembles long rake. Used for catching eels in mud. Donor info - found in Pretty Marsh home of donor.
Description: Bill from Eastern Steamship Lines to Mrs. Donald N. Gilpin c/o JA Somes for one bureau; amount appears to be $98.00, but only the figure 98 appears in the amount column without and dollar sign.
Description: Handwritten list in pencil of doctors' bills and funeral expenses [for John William Somes], written by John Allen Somes, estate administrator. Doctors are Dr. Wakfield and Dr. JS Grindle and RS Grindle. Funeral cost fo AC Fernald was $303.00. On other side of this listing are amounts written to Somesville School House, Seal Harbor and Otter Creek road notes, and Mountain Road No. 2 notes. Also amounts received from various people for sewer permits, as well as other entries. [show more]