What is "mantelpieces"

Usage examples of "mantelpieces".

And when things got going, three or four pianos at once, the celesta, the organ, the mandolins, the guitars, beer running through the halls, the mantelpieces full of sandwiches and cigars, a breeze coming through from the garden, George Neumiller stripped to the waist and modulating like a fiend, it was better than any show I've ever seen put on and it didn't cost a cent.

In not one of the rooms he had visited had he seen a photograph, neither on the walls nor on the mantelpieces, not even a snapshot, such as is found in the humblest dwelling, no picture of the beach or the mountains.

The last ancient spots had been plowed under, paved, pulverized by bulldozers, and picked over by mindless off-road-vehicle enthusiasts to whom no oddment was too sacred to take home, to put on their dusty mantelpieces, to forget.