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1690-1720
GUSN-11082
Set of William & Mary-style brass escutcheons and drop handles, including: 1 keyhole escutcheon, 3 pull plates, 2 small & 1 large teardrop pulls, and 1 cotter pin. The plates are etched with characteristic stylized leaf and circle decoration; originally from a larger set per attached tag. Height of objects range from 1 5/8 to 2 3/8 and have widths of 1/2 to 2 3/4. [see folder for traced designs of the objects]
furniture hardware
fragments
brass (alloy)
etching (corroding)
etching (printing process)
leaf (plant material)
foliation (pattern)
leaf (metal)
stamping (forming)
leaf (plant material)
foliation (pattern)
leaf (metal)
William and Mary
Brass
Etched
Stamped
William and Mary
Leaf
Circle
FRAGMENTS, METAL
On a handwritten tag that was attached, reads on one side: Set of Brass teardrop pulls with/stamped brass escutcheons/ca.1700/12 pulls with escutcheons/4 keyhole escutcheons"" . On the other side: ""From Oliver Williams auction - July 26, 1966""/""Bacon"" (in hand that matches the other side).
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1393.1-7
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