handle, door
handle, door
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- Description
- Elaborate Suffolk-type latch from door of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, Congregational Meeting House. Large flat cusps have symmetrical scrolled and pointed finials, the upper more attenuated than the lower. Thumb-press latch handle on front, becoming a curved lift bar on back. Chiseled decoration on front of handle in form of two lozenges between horizontal grooves.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- handle, door
- date made
- c. 1775-1799
- place made; place used
- United States: Massachusetts, Hubbardston
- Physical Description
- metal, iron (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 3/8 in x 25 in x 7 1/4 in; 13.6525 cm x 63.5 cm x 18.415 cm
- ID Number
- DL.388809
- catalog number
- 388809
- accession number
- 182022
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Religion
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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