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Embossed and Polychrome Painted Leather Folding Screen from Thomas W. Lawson's Dreamwold Estate, Scituate, Massachusetts, early 20th century, composed of three panels joined by iron hinges the front of each, leather, with embossed and painted three masted sailing ships above a pair of baluster columns divided by circular medallions, the top of each screen with depictions of towers on Lawson's estate, the back of the panels composed of brown-painted cloth, all bordered with brass tacks, ht. 69, wd. 75 in. Note: Thomas W. Lawson (1857-1925) a prominent and sometimes controversial Boston businessman and stock promoter. Lawson's 300-acre Dreamworld estate was intended to be composed of residential and farm buildings constructed to the highest-possible standards. A visual focal point of Lawson's estate was a 15th century-style watchtower built in 1902 housing a 276,000-gallon municipal water tank. The tower still stands today as a prominent Scituate landmark.


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Date:
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