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1750-1850
GUSN-2349
A staved tapering cylindrical form with a round, incised wood cover held by a forked extension to projecting handle. Staves held by three locked laps at base and single fingered lap at top.
tankards
ash (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Ash
Pine
Maple
TANKARD
Paper label at top: Molasses tankard/from the/Luther Bailey Family. He/was brother to/Col. John our/ancestor: 1950 [symbol below colon] Incised ink on bottom: DS/SQ
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
12.5 (H), 9 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.366
Massachusetts (United States)
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