1750-1780
GUSN-2459
Fireback with scrolled crest; shaped sides; floral border; encloses depiction of man on horseback with line of convicts and guards below.
firebacks
casting (process)
iron (metal)
Iron
Cast
FIREBACK
Cast on the lower band is: ST WP [It is so corroded that the cataloger could not see the inscription noted from NFL's notes.]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Europe
24 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.484
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