Steel shaft; bulbous brass ring-turned handle with nipple top.
brass (alloy)
steel (alloy)
Brass
Steel
TONGS, FIREPLACE
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
19.875 x 2.375 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.368B
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