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Scissor-type tongs with tapered cylindrical shafts terminating in flattened clappers; squared rod handle with pyramid-shaped finial surmounting scissored join; 18th-century style.
iron (metal)
Iron
TONGS, FIREPLACE
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
25.25 x 4.5 x 0.688 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.674
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