Knur and Spell: Equipment
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Knur and Spell: Equipment
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1789
Creator(s): Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
Site Location(s): Subject - Langthwaite, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4176, -1.9932 )
Date(s): July 1967
Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/w7pkbyxx
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412739
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Knur and spell equipment, Langthwaite ( Arkengarthdale). The spell consists of a strong steel spring, often fixed to a piece of boarding (unlike the spell pictured), which would be used to throw the knur high enough from the ground to be able to hit it with a striker. The spell pictured is made of metal, with three legs to hold it firmly in the ground. Also pictured are a knur, a ball hand cut from holly or box wood and about the size of a duck egg, and a striker, a flat-faced piece of wood attached to the end of a four-foot long hardwood stick. To play, the spring of the spell, with the knur in place on the tray, is pressed down into a catch which is released when the striker touches the trigger. When thrown into the air, the striker is used to hit the knur as far as possible.
Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1787and LAVC/PHO/P1788. With ms. notes and catalogue details in the hand of Werner Kissling. Card 1 in a series of 6.
Originally held in Photo File: Games.
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