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Turned natural wood handle with coiled wire at the apex of straw; wire woven with straw below coil neck; straw is gathered with string below.
firesets
straw (plant material)
wire
wood (plant material)
Wood
Wire
Straw
Broom, Fireplace
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
27 x 8 x 2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.402
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