Stamp-cut flat body with wing-like shape surmounted by stylized "bird head" form and terminating in curvilinear drop pendant; six screw holes.
backplates (finish hardware)
brass (alloy)
Chippendale
Brass
Chippendale
PLATE
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
1.875 x 3.063 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.736.1
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