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Andiron shaped like a standing man with a grass skirt and a bottle and a rectangular log rest. One of a pair.
andirons
casting (process)
iron (metal)
Accessory, Fireplace
Andiron
Andiron
As a reminder, the same hands that contacted the merchant or shopkeeper, signed their name to the account, and handed over coin or credit for these andirons were not the same hands that tended to the fires in the hearth where these andirons stood; nor were they the hands that chopped the logs that rested on the supports. Those individuals remain unknown, their stores yet to be recovered. Objects like these provide a window into a world they experienced--a world wholly distinct from the nostaligic image conjured by Henry Davis Sleeper at Beauport.
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
20 x 8 x 17 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.2917.2
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