Wrought iron fireplace fender has bow front; vertical wires, 1/4" apart from screen, joined by a frame of four horizontal wires; at top is a wire "swag"; twelve vertical wrought iron supports behind wires; painted black or "stove" blacked.
fenders (fire-controlling equipment)
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
wire
wrought
Iron
Wire
Wrought
Painted
FENDER
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
12 x 63 x 13.875 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.729
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