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Hand Mirror

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Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1750-1850

GUSN

GUSN-3133

Description

A hand mirror of hand carved pine in odd triangular form, made to fit a long broken piece of mirrored glass, held in with metal pins, with tapered handle and a round knob at the end.

Details

Descriptive Terms

hand mirrors
mirrors
carving (processes)
metal
mirrors
pine (wood)
glass (material)
pine (wood)
Glass
Unidentified Metal
Carved
Pine
MIRROR, HAND

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

11.5 x 4.5 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1633

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