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1875-1910
GUSN-8528
Pumpkin-shaped with small wooden handle. In two halves with eyes, nose and mouth stamped out. Tin candle holder inside attached to heavy metal wire. Traces of old orange paint.
tin (metal)
Tin
Stamped
Painted
Handmade
Molded
Lantern
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10 (H), 6 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.741
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