Steel scissors tongs tapering shafts with bulb and ring turnings, terminating in a brass urn-shaped finial.
brass (alloy)
steel (alloy)
Neoclassical
Brass
Steel
Neoclassical
TONGS, FIREPLACE
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
25.5 x 3.875 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.342B
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