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Candlestick with large handle; carved from one piece of wood; tallow candle.
candlesticks
brass (alloy)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Brass
Carved
Turned
Treen
Candlestick
With pen in script on jelly label on bottom: Wood candle/holder home-made/in Branchville,/New Jersey - Over/100 yrs. old when/given to my uncle/in 1931/N.F.L.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
1 1/2 (H), 8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.660
Probably New Jersey (United States)
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