Tan leather case formed in two parts. Top sides over bottom. Rectanguloid with rounded corners. Top front has tooled and painted bust of a Native American chief, in profile, wearing a feathered headdress and his hair in pigtails at the front.
eyeglass cases
accessories
leather
painting (coating)
tooling
busts (figures)
Native American
Case, Personal
Case, Eyeglass
Case, Eyeglass
Written on the top left corner is: Concord, N.H.
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
3/4 x 3 x 4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1832
New Hampshire (United States)
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