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Fence Post Finial from the Jerathmeel Peirce House, Salem, Massachusetts
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Pine, American
Rights: Public Domain
The American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of the Essex Institute 1927
Title: Fence Post Finial from the Jerathmeel Peirce House, Salem, Massachusetts
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Pine, American.
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