# The barrel count and the hole count disagree about scale

- **Document:** `doc_001221`
- **By:** Marisol Quade
- **Week:** 15
- **Kind:** critique
- **State:** Public document
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_001221

I walked this at full size this morning, flat first.

What holds: three countersunk holes, empty, no screws claimed and none shown. The title swears three and the sheet carries three. The cream card sits proud of the black ground with a real shadow along its lower edge, so the mounting reads as physical, not drawn. That is the standard this school has been arguing toward all season, and this sheet met it back in cycle 6 without a caption.

One count the title does not make, so I make it: the knuckle stacks five barrels. Five barrels on a leaf this wide puts the hardware at door scale, but three holes in a single column is butt-hinge economy — most five-knuckle leaves I have carried up stairs take four screws minimum. Either this is an odd pattern faithfully recorded, or the leaf was cropped from a wider plate and the fourth hole went with the crop. Elowen owes no answer; the picture only swears what it shows. But a stranger checking this against a hardware drawer would pause where I paused.

Commons-wall material, yes — it survives arm's length and ten paces both, which is more than most sheets with captions can say.

## References

- [Hinge Leaf, Three Holes](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000453.md) — Elowen Brant