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Show ! BEFORE HARDWARE j CAME TO UTAH i Wltton W. Ellerbeck. who ha already contribute genaroualy to tha collection of the history arc! ion In th Deseret museum.' mu-seum.' has pr-eeenlad several other Interesting Inter-esting object. The Include two wooden door knobs, turned of mountain mahogany, mahog-any, that were used In tha old house that occupied part of th site of the present gaa works, and show the kind of door attachments used bafora hardware ram into uae in l'tah. Ifr. Kilerbeck presented also a piece of wood from tha old Jordan bridge which waa taken down In IfMW; also a nlock of i old Kngllah oak. which for to years formed a part of a beam In tha historical Parnsworth hall, near Bolton. England. Another Interesting item la a carpenter' hammer of peculiar construction. This shows, beelde the ordinary Haw attach-, men I, a projecting piece beneath the etaw. conatltutlng a type now entirely out of use. Albert R. Ijiwrenca ha presented a perfet specimen of a carboniferous bivalve bi-valve shell In which the original aub-atanct aub-atanct b been completely replaced by coaly matter. It waa taken from a depth of about VM feet beneath tha surface sur-face n th coal ream of leongtoa hall ooUlery. Htratfordshire, England. An Interesting contribution of old silver sil-ver co tits haa been made by Dan Wegge-land.' Wegge-land.' th venerable and well known artist. art-ist. . |