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Square form with hinged green velvet covered lid on can forming the base, raised in four turned feet. The box is painted red and it has a swing metal wire handle. The box is lined with tin and fitted with a whale oil burner.
heat-distributing units
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
tin (metal)
velvet (fabric weave)
pine (wood)
Pine
Tin
Velvet
Painted
WARMER, FOOT
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 1/2 x 8 x 7 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.447
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