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1890-1910
GUSN-2279
Large, naturally pitted, cream-colored egg with metal hanger wrought in metal, with pansy at small end and calla lily on circular circular disk on large end, tied together with heavy wire fashioned into loop for hanging (not decorated).
pictures (two-dimensional representations)
egg
ostrich eggshell
Egg
PICTURE, EGG
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.287
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