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Trinket Box

Collection Type

  • Household accessories

Date

1750-1800

GUSN

GUSN-10643

Description

Small, round treenware (maple?) box and cover, its body and short and squat with sides widely curved inward, its fitted and locking cover incised with rings and with an incarved rectangular handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

boxes (containers)
turning (shaping process)
treenware
maple (wood)
maple (wood)
Treenware
Maple
Turned
BOX, TRINKET

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1 1/2 x 3 1/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.535AB

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