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Square box-shaped body of painted black tin framing two amber and two red transparent glass panes; top edge and side edges decorated with applied zig-zag and scroll-shaped bands; one side hinged as door; pyramidal top surmounted by ring for hanging; four ball feet; tin and brass burner socket with shaped glass chimney inside.
lanterns (lighting devices)
hanging lamps
brass (alloy)
glass (material)
tinning
Lantern
Lantern
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
13 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.611
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