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Ball-shaped finial; rectangular handle which splits into two scissor-like shafts; these sharply project outward at top forming U-shape hinge, then rejoin at flattened disk ends; shafts rounded at bottom while the top is rectanguloid; painted black or "stove blacked."
iron (metal)
wrought
Iron
Wrought
TONGS, FIREPLACE
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
26.5 x 3.875 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.998
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