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White; rectangular; flip top; gold lettering with banners, medallions and scrolling garland around edge of top.
boxes (containers)
gilding
paper (fiber product)
Box, Accessory
Box, Shoe
Box, Shoe
Printed on top: ""HOOK KNOWLES & Co./ FROM/ DIEU ET MON DROIT/ to The Royal Family/ Ladies' Boot & Shoe Manufactrs/ 66 & 65, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON. W./ Prize Medal/ 1851/ Great Exhibition/ Prize Medal/ Paris Exhibition/ 1855""
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Hook Knowles & Co. (Maker)
London W., England; London, England
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.7177.1
Title SHOES Accession Number 1969.7177.2AB
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