Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID # |
2012.058.019 |
Object Name |
Carving |
Title |
Folk Art Model of a Log Saw |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Credit line |
Donated by John and Edna Vetter and family |
Year Range from |
1956 |
Year Range to |
1985 |
Artist |
Myers, George Louis |
Made |
Myers, George Louis |
Place of Origin |
Hanover, Municipality of West Grey, Grey County |
Description |
Folk art carving of a log saw. It is made of painted wood. It has two sections, one which holds the log on the blade, and the other which contains the mechanism. The log saw frame is red, and is mounted on a green-painted wooden base. The mechanism has a main wheel apparatus with a leather band which acts as an engine to move the blade back and forth. There is a small log with an indent, to display how the blade functions. The blade has small teeth, like those of a large saw. The mechanism has levers which lift the blade up and down. The base is L-shaped, to showcase how the log saw works. |
Provenance |
Made by George Louis Myers in Hanover, Grey County. Dates to between 1956 and 1985. Belonged to George Louis Myers. He was born in Sullivan Township, Grey County on April 13, 1897. He was a son of Henry and Augusta Myers (née Drew), who farmed at Lot 17, Concession 4, Sullivan Township. He married Hilda Gateman on May 28, 1924, when he was twenty-six and she was nineteen. His family moved to Hanover, Grey County in 1956, where he began carving. He died on June 30, 1985 at the age of eighty-eight, and is buried in Hanover Cemetery. His son, Maurice H. Myers (1932-1969), was a friend of John Vetter. Last owned by John and Edna Vetter of Waterloo, Ontario, who inherited it in 1968. |
Collection |
Folk Art Collection |
Material |
Wood/Paints/Metal |
Dimensions |
H-16 W-43 L-40 cm |
Found |
Ontario |
People |
Myers, George Louis |
Subjects |
Artists Logs Saws |
Search Terms |
Hanover |