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Lignum vitae mortar and pestle both with ring turnings throughout; made into lamp drilled and electrified.
lamps (lighting devices)
drilling (process)
lignum vitae (wood)
turning (shaping process)
Lignum Vitae
Drilled
Turned
LAMP
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
England
13 (H), 7.25 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.320
Possibly
Possibly
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