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"Lazy Boy Smoker's Stand"
"Lazy Boy Smoker's Stand"

"Lazy Boy Smoker's Stand"

Walter von Nessen (American, born in Germany, 1889–1943)
Chase Brass & Copper Company (active 1929 to the present)
designed in 1933
Object PlaceWaterbury, Connecticut
Medium/TechniqueChrome, plastic
DimensionsOverall: 57.2 x 27.9 cm (22 1/2 x 11 in.)
Credit LineGift of J. Parker Prindle
Accession number2009.5338
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMetalwork
Collections
ProvenanceBy 2009, J. Parker Prindle, Boston, MA; 2009, given by Prindle to the MFA. (Accession date: June 20, 2010)
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