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1890-1920
GUSN-20386
Rectangular tin box w/ removable lid, painted brown w/ black detail. Detail features comic scenes of stage coaches and one of 2 women being served at an inn.
boxes (containers)
painting (coating)
tin (metal)
Tin
Painted
BOX
Painted on box lid: ""Pickwick Inn/ Candy Shop/ Greenwich, Connecticut"" Painted on side: ""NET WEIGHT ONE POUND/ (PATENT APPLIED FOR)"" Also engraved on bottom of box: ""CANCO""
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Pickwick Inn
Unknown
2.5 x 6.125 x 3.875 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.3553
Connecticut (United States)
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