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.
hand mirrors
mirrors
ebony (wood)
mirrors
pine (wood)
glass (material)
Federal
pine (wood)
Pine
Ebony
Glass
Federal
MIRROR, HAND
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11.25 x 4.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1232
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