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.
boxes (containers)
turning (shaping process)
treenware
maple (wood)
maple (wood)
Treenware
Maple
Turned
BOX, TRINKET
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
1 1/2 x 3 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.535AB
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