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White cardboard box w/ hinged side and filled w/ artists' supplies, including 5 stamps, 6 charcoal pieces, 3 pencils, one eraser and 2 pieces of felt.
boxes (containers)
packaging
cardboard
charcoal (plant material)
paper (fiber product)
Unidentified Paper
Cardboard
Charcoal
BOX
Adhesive on top of box: ""The/ Popular/ Box of/ Old Fashioned/ Stationary/ Paret & Whittington/ Washington D.C."" Pencil on bottom of box: ""From Mame on my 41st birthday/ Ever memorable""
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Paret & Whittington (Maker)
Washington, DC, USA
2.25 x 5 x 7.625 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.2352
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