Grass Sickle, circa 1895
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Sickles remained a useful late-nineteenth-century tool on small farms and for simple jobs around the farmyard or garden. A farmer wielding a sickle blade could clear weeds, cut through brush or even harvest small plots of grain or hay.
Sickles remained a useful late-nineteenth-century tool on small farms and for simple jobs around the farmyard or garden. A farmer wielding a sickle blade could clear weeds, cut through brush or even harvest small plots of grain or hay.
Artifact
Sickle
Date Made
circa 1895
Place of Creation
On Exhibit
at Greenfield Village in Soybean Lab Agricultural Gallery
Object ID
00.3.16790
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Steel (Alloy)
Wood (Plant material)
Dimensions
Width: 12.5 in
Length: 17 in
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