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Fire tools for basket grate

about 1780
Medium/TechniqueIron and brass
DimensionsLegacy dimension: Average length .72
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number23.618
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMetalwork
Collections
Provenance1923, sold by Gill and Reigate, London, to the MFA for $1,480 [see note 1]. (Accession Date: December 6, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] MFA accession numbers 23.612-619, 621-628 were purchased together for $1,480.
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