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Hand Mirror

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1790-1825

GUSN

GUSN-2782

Description

Long, oval wooden hand mirror with delicate stringing around the glass; pine handle tapers and is pierced and has two round inlaid bits of ebony; seems to be a woman's.

Details

Descriptive Terms

hand mirrors
mirrors
ebony (wood)
mirrors
pine (wood)
glass (material)
Federal
pine (wood)
Pine
Ebony
Glass
Federal
MIRROR, HAND

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

11.25 x 4.5 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1232

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