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1750-1800
GUSN-10720
Fire tongs with button finial on tapering square handle; the arms are in a "C" shape binnd at the top; these are spade-shaped tongs.
iron (metal)
wrought
Iron
Wrought
TONGS, FIREPLACE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
26 x 5.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.577
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