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Image of Melted pile of marbles from the Great Seattle Fire, 1889, once belonged to Amos Burgert, a Seattle hardware store owner during the time of the fire
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Melted pile of marbles from the Great Seattle Fire, 1889, once belonged to Amos Burgert, a Seattle hardware store owner during the time of the fire

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This relic from the Great Seattle Fire was owned by Amos Burgert, a Seattle hardware store owner at the time of the Great Seattle Fire.
ID Number: 2013.14.1
Date: Circa 1880
Physical Description: 1 Marble; glass; 2 in.H x 4.5 in.W x 4 in.D
Credit: MOHAI, 2013.14.1. Donated in memory of Polly Ann Burgert Weston
Subjects: Great Seattle Fire (1889), Toys
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