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Lighting Device

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Collection Type

  • Lighting

Date

1865-1920

GUSN

GUSN-103700

Description

Wooden rectangular candle box painted green. Slide lid with three semicircle shaped finger grooves.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Box, Household
Box, Candle
Box, Candle

Inscription

"Candle box & cutler / in daily use when Amelia / Little was growing up. / Present from Amelia. / WHN" (Paper note)

Associated Person

Little, Amelia Worth, 1892-1986
Noyes, William

Additional Identification Number

3428

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

Newbury, MA (use)

Dimensions

5 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 11 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Herbert Noyes

Accession Number

2008.43.1AB

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