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1700-1750
GUSN-2311
The twisted iron shaft with hook terminus is connected to a notched shaft by ring and a hinged, pierced rectangular plate. The notched shaft has loop at end which holds an open square form grease lamp hanging from a twisted shaft. A chain (missing a piece) attached to lamp's shaft.
grease lamps
hangers (fasteners)
iron (metal)
wrought
Iron
Wrought
Trammel
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
35 x 5 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.319
1700-1750 (Possibly)
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