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1775-1825
GUSN-10837
Scissor-style resting on 3 feet (1 missing foot by right handle) with box on single blade, cast out of iron.
candle snuffers
casting (process)
iron (metal)
metal
Unidentified Metal
Iron
Cast
Candlesnuffer
Tied-on handle loop tag; Handwritten note on attached tied on tag reads: ""Beemesville (?) 2-24 - 1901 (?)/Candle snuffers over 100 years/old Presented by James Deekes (?)/Branchville NJ (indistinct handwriting) [Note now enclosed in accession file.]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.598
Possibly New Jersey (United States)
possibly
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