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Toilet mirror. — The glass is in two rectangular sections, upper 

 and lower, the whole inclosed in a narrow frame of black wahiut sur- 

 rounded with a thin strip of maple. The glass of the upper section is 

 decorated in gilt with a lacquered design of roses and leaves arranged 

 in festoons with bows of ribbon. Presented by General Washington 

 to Mi's. Washmgton in 1795. Size, 20 by 18 inches. Upper section 

 20 by 5 inches. Lewis collection. Cat. No. 92225, U.S.N.M. 



Mahogany hedstead — consisting of the following pieces: Two plain 

 square foot posts; two ornately-carved head posts, lower part of each 

 square, and upper part fashioned after Greek columns; plain head- 

 board with curved top; plain footboard with straight top; two plain 

 side boards; thirteen plain pine slats; four plain pine slats for curtain 

 supports. Presented by Admiral Edward Vernon, Royal Navy, to 

 Lawrence Washington, who had served as captain in the expedition 

 undertaken by Admiral Vernon against Cartagena in 1741.^ Be- 

 queathed to Washington by his half-brother, Lawrence, in 1752. 

 Height, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 8 inches; length, 6 feet 4 inches. 

 Lewis collection. Cat. No. 92411-22, U.S.N.M. 



Fire hellows. — Oval in shape with cone-shaped spout of iron. Sides 

 and handles of ash wood, the former carved with a succession of 

 concentric rings. Body of heavy brown leather, fastened to sides 

 with iron tacks. Length, 27 inches; width, 11 inches. Lewis collec- 

 tion. Cat. No. 92534, U.S.N.M. 



CANDELABRA, LAMPS, AND CANDLESTICKS. 



Pair of glass candclahra. — Description of each as follows: Base 

 pyramidal in shape and surmounted by a circular silver top above 

 which rises a slender triangular stem of glass, surmounted by a circu- 

 lar dish-like top with scalloped edges upon which rests a cup-shaped 

 ornament. From the silver top of the base extend four six-sided 

 glass arms nearly at right angles to each other. Two of these extend 

 upward, outward, and downward, and two extend outward, down- 

 ward, and upward in the form of an ''S," and support on each end 

 cyhndrical-shaped candle sockets, at the upper and lower ends of 

 which are star-shaped ornaments projecting beyond the socket and 

 from which hang glass pendants. The four arms are miited by a 

 gracefully festooned chain of glass pendants joined with metal links. 

 The glass is of unusual clearness and the numerous pendants give a 

 beautiful prismatic effect to the pieces. Height, 23 inches; width, 

 14 inches; base, 4^ inches square. Lent by Miss Mary Custis Lee. 

 Cat. No. 2088, U.S.N.M. 



Pair of silver-2)lated wall-bracket lamjjs. — Each lamp consists of a 

 circular bracket fitted with a horizontal arm which extends outward 



• See Introduclion to this paper, p. 1. 



