Decorative wrought iron fashioned by Peter Simmons

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A scrolled decorative piece of wrought iron fashioned by Peter Simmons, a formerly enslaved blacksmith. The black iron is scrolled into an S shape with the top and bottom scrolled in the same direction. The scrolls are the same size. There is a rivet and a rivet hole at the center of the top scroll and two (2) holes for rivets along the base of the bottom scroll. Along the center edge is a painted white rectangle with handwritten black text that reads [R354].

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