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Wooden document box decorated with brass tacks which outline the box, arch at corners and surround the oval brass plates and handle on the lid. Has a wrought iron lock and brass keyhole cover with an impressed eagle, small metal hinges at the back; the wood originally covered with black leather (traces remain between the cracks).
boxes (containers)
brass (alloy)
iron (metal)
leather
pine (wood)
Federal
pine (wood)
Pine
Iron
Brass
Leather
Federal
Studded
BOX
Penned on the bottom underside is: Emily M. Matchett .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 x 11.75 x 6 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.478
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