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Pasteboard oval box covered with block printed floral wallpaper, the lid is stuffed with fabric to make the pincushion top. It has a white floral pattern, block printed on green ground with orange edging; on the pin cushion lid is a priated cotton of black flowers on a red ground and stuffed with straw and burlap.
sewing boxes
cotton (textile)
pasteboard (paper)
straw (plant material)
wallpapers
Box, Needlework
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 4 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.460AB
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