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Metal Architectural Spire
4/12/2014 - Americana: Live Salesroom Auction
American, 19th century. A sheet metal architectural spire mounted on a stepped wooden base, having an urn form at the bottom, from which a pole rises, adorned with three sections of petal-like ornamentation, a sphere, and topped by two arrows crossed diagonally and a pointed spear; ht. without base 91 in., ht. with base 103 in.
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