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It has a cast loop shaped handle with a beaded edge and floriform "spurs", on twisted shaft with a bell shaped terminus. It is disc-shaped at the waist, with five connected rings and undulating ribbon-like guard at ring perimeter all on a trumpet shaped base.
cruet stands
britannia metal
casting (process)
pewter (tin alloy)
tin (metal)
Pewter
Britannia
Slip Cast
STAND, CRUET
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
10.125 x 5.875 (HxD) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.759
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