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Large billet head well carved and painted buff. Apparently a model as it has never been in use. [see photo neg#45718-A]
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
pineapple (motif)
Pine
Carved
Painted
Pineapple
CARVING, BILLET HEAD
In ink on a jelly label, in NFL's script is: Billet Head/carved by Simeon Skillin of New York City./(From Skillin/Family)
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Skillin (I or II), Simeon, Mr., d. 1830 (Maker)
New York, NY, USA
17.5 x 9.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.889
New York state (United States)
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