Rectangular with sliding cover, chip carved decoration, cover carved with two pinwheels within a sawtooth border; three sides carved with cross-hatched diamond pattern within a sawtooth border; painted red.
candle boxes
chip carving
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Carved
Painted
Pinwheel
Box, Candle
Incised on top: ""A"" ""C"". Incised on underside: ""A W 1795"", end ""1785"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.140
Unknown
3 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 5 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.140AB
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