The pad
is lignum vitae; the wrist handle is rosewood:
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B&D-157
Price: SOLD
There
were quite a few patents awarded to William
A. Ives; I think the one reproduced below is what Holt
Manufacturing Company followed in the design of this brace. This chuck
appears several times in Sandy Moss's
collection of Holt braces. Then there's the signature Holt wrist
handle, constructed in two pieces of rosewood secured at each end with
brass rings set into the wood, much like the McCoy
patent. See B&D-155,
a brace made by Shepardson, who also constructed its wrist handle in
two pieces with brass connectors. The handles are worn but intact. Both
the McCoy and Ives patents were most likely expired by the time this
brace was made.
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