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Collection Highlights

Architect's Sign
ca. 1837
1953.197
Wood
Original Owner: John Butler Snook

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Candlestick

Candlestick
Object name 
Candlestick
Date 
1840-1855
Medium 
Glass
Dimensions 
Overall: 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. ( 19 x 10.8 cm )
Description 
Olive pressed lead glass candlestick; hexagonal baluster socket and stem with knop; wafer joins stem below knop to hollow hexagonal trumpet-shaped base with knop and collar.
Credit Line 
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number 
1965.866b
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.