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1875-1900
GUSN-3223
Each shaker has a colorless glass base which is cylindrical, tapered, and panelled; shakers are inset with shoulders and a bulbous ring below domed, gilt-plated silver plate or perhaps rather brass caps; the caps have elongated piercings above a band of palmettos and have a cypher at the center top.
saltshakers
pepper shakers
cookware
glass (material)
molding (forming)
silver (metal)
plate (material)
Glass
Molded
Silver
Shaker, Salt & Pepper
Engraved on the tops of each cap is a monogram or possibly just decorative devices which are difficult to make out.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1006
Unknown
3 1/2 x 1 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1006.1-6
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