Small, with dome top, leather strap hinges, nail construction; painted red and grained in ochre.
boxes (containers)
graining
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Grained
Box
In pencil on underside of top: ""Mary J. E. (Keen) Propity / Eimoor [or Elmoor?], East Bridgewater Mass."" In pencil on bottom of box: ""Hannah Gardner Bennett. Abington Mass"" and ""Hannah G. Bennett / South Abington / Mass. / This box and part of contents belonged / Hannah S. Bennett Keen"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4 1/2 x 8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.226
Massachusetts (United States)
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