Description (Labels & Markings)
A handwritten label found with the object reads: '28.750 Gypsy Hampshire'.
Event Date
Author: David Kay

Description (Labels & Markings)
One peg is marked in black ink: 'MADE by Gypsies, Blackwater, Harts.'
Event Date
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Collection of pegs made by gypsies.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (References)
cf: Museum of East Anglian Life (2019) 'Gypsy Peg' The Abbot's Hall Almanac. https://abbotshall.wordpress.com/abbots-hall/gypsy-room/gypsy-peg/ (last accessed: 20/03/2019)
Event Date 2019
Author: David Kay

Context (Analysis)
Pegs like these were often sold by Traveller communities in the early twentieth century, usually in bundles of a dozen pushed onto a sliver of wood, though this particular set only includes eleven pegs (Museum of East Anglian Life 2019).
Event Date 20/3/2019
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
Eleven wooden clothes pegs (.1-.11), each made from a single, roughly cylindrical piece of wood that has been split up the middle. A metal collar, made from a strip of tin held in place with an iron nail, is bound around the top of the slit to prevent the peg from breaking into two. There is also a splinter of wood used in bundling them together (.12).
Event Date 9/6/2022
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff