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Wood frame with chamfered and notched uprights and square chamfered edge on the top and bottom; holds four rectangular panes of glass; the top has a shaped opening and is fitted with a pierced tin panel and a wire handle; the upright post projects through the top and bottom; one side has cotter-pin hinges and a loop wire.
lanterns (lighting devices)
glass (material)
hardwood
tin (metal)
wire
Hardwood
Glass
Tin
Wire
LANTERN
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 x 5.875 x 5.875 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.985
1780-1820 (Possibly)
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