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Candlestick

Collection Type

  • Lighting

Date

1820-1860

GUSN

GUSN-3126

Description

A tin cylindrical candle cup and drip pan with a rolled edge, sloping sides and a flat bottom on an iron rod with a turned wood handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

candleholders
iron (metal)
tin (metal)
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
Tin
Wood
Iron
Turned
Candlestick

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

36 1/4 (H) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1626

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