The pad
may be lignum vitae; the wrist handle is rosewood:
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Model No.112
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B&D-161
SOLD
The
jaws of this brace generally correspond to the teachings of Henry
Barber's 1864 patent, except that someone has added a dimple/projection
combination to the jaws that ensures that they will not become axially
displaced relative to each other. Presumably, that was the intent of
Henry Stevens's 1880 patent that added a confining sleeve to the
original Barber design. I have not seen another pair of Barber's patent
jaws like this pair. The brace appears to be contemporaneous to other
Barber patent braces, so it probably represents unpatented "research"
on the part of an unknown maker. The barely legible No.112 on
the bow does not correspond with any known Millers Falls brace in Randy
Roeder's Millers
Falls Braces page.
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