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handle, door
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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.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linehandle, door. c. 1775-1799. National Museum of American History, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. CC0.
