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Round turned handle with elongated acorn finial, right turned central turning; swag shaped block on end fitted through bottom with bunches of horse hair bristles; dyed blue.
firesets
maple (wood)
walnut (wood)
dyeing
horsehair
maple (wood)
walnut (wood)
Walnut
Horsehair
Maple
Dyed
BROOM, FIREPLACE
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
England
21.5 x 8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.487
Possibly
Possibly
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