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LATH

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Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

ca. 1695

GUSN

GUSN-27422

Description

Small piece of lath with hand-wrought nail in it. Tag: "Bit of a 1695 lath with nail from B. Titcomb House, Newburyport. The creosoting is recent. The lath came from the projecting rounded end of the W. Chamber summer and helped carry the plaster coving?.

Details

Descriptive Terms

lath
wrought
handmade
iron (metal)
wood (plant material)
Iron
Hand-wrought
LATH

Associated Building

Original To Benaiah Titcomb House,

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of William Sumner Appleton

Accession Number

1917.232

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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