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1830-1860
GUSN-10878
Small oval bentwood form with fitted lid, three tapering "finger" laps held with brass tacks, painted red.
boxes (containers)
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Shaker (Christian sect)
Painted
Maple
Pine
Shaker
BOX
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
1.125 x 3.25 x 2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.774
Possibly New York state (United States)
possibly
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