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Black painted hand mirror, with a flat rectangular frame on a long curved handle with a scratch-carved linear leaf design; with a pieced hole in the handle.
hand mirrors
mirrors
carving (processes)
cutting (dividing)
gluing
mirrors
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
glass (material)
hand mirrors
Wood
Glass
Cut
Painted
Glued
Carved
Mirror, Hand
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 5/8 x 4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1479
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