Twisted flame finial surmounting urn-shaped hand grip; shanks are shaped as if to imitate bamboo widening, then narrowing down again to straight cylindrical shape; brass shafts terminating in brass clappers.
bamboo (material)
brass (alloy)
bamboo (material)
Brass
Bamboo
TONGS, FIREPLACE
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
3.688 (W) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.706
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