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Nest of four very small Shaker style oval-shaped pantry boxes of light wood which has sides made from maple, tops from birch, bottoms from pine and copper tacks. The boxes are of diminutive size.
boxes (containers)
birch (wood)
copper (metal)
manufacturing
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Shaker (Christian sect)
Maple
Copper
Pine
Birch
Factory-made
Shaker
BOX
1. Maker's Paper Label on underside of lid: Manufactured by/ SAM*L HERSEY,/ Hersey Street,/ Hingham, Mass. 2. NFL handwritten note tucked inside the largest box: Maple/ sides/ bottoms/ pine/ tops birch [enclosed in file]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Hersey, Samuel (Manufacturer)
Hingham, MA, USA
2 1/8 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.530.1AB-4AB
Massachusetts (United States)
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