safety hook

HARDWARE - MARINE
USA, MA, West Lynn; USA, MA, Saugus
5.00 x 2.75 x 0

Safety hook; probably from vessel built or repaired at the Britt Brothers yard, West Lynn and Saugus MA; came to Mystic Seaport in tool chest 97.153.1 owned by Andrew B. Britt Sr., [1868-1941]; safety hook is drop-forged steel; aluminum clip painted gold, stamped "34" on underside; similar to safety clip advertised on p. 79 of Durkee Company catalog #60, 1954


1997.153.54

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