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1890-1920
GUSN-11398
Swimming swan made of sheet iron, with a fancy cut-out tail. Mounted on an old iron bracket to stick it in the ground. Painted white with a pale beak.
ornaments
painting (coating)
sheet metal
iron (metal)
ornaments
Iron
Painted
Ornament, Garden
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
20 1/2 x 23 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1726
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