contact key
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Inventory Number: 1998-1-1672
Classification: Contact Key
Dimensions:2.5 × 9 × 5.2 cm (1 × 3 9/16 × 2 1/16 in.)
Description:
Wooden base with three binding posts equally spaced atop the left hand length of the base. The lower-right and top left of the base have holes bored in it. Atop the center of the base is the key, a long metal rod with a knob at its end, restrained by a brass bracket above, and with a contact point on the base under the knob.