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Small, round wooden snuff box painted an opaque dark green, its lid painted with a six-pointed star on a white circle enclosed with a black rim; there is a trace of snuff still in box.
snuffboxes
accessories
painting (coating)
polychrome
wood (plant material)
Papier Mache
Polychrome
Painted
SNUFFBOX
Handwritten paper jelly label on bottom underside: found in/ Ohio./ from/ zoar?
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Ohio, United States; Pennsylvania, United States
3/4 x 3 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.532AB
Possibly Ohio (United States)
Pennsylvania (United States)
Possibly Ohio (United States)
Possibly Pennsylvania (United States)
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