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Rectangular form with sliding cover, projecting rounded handle at one end, sides with raised panels incised with a circle and flower motif enclosed by sawtooth patterned chip-carved borders; handle also incised with flower and circle; old brown paint.
boxes (containers)
chip carving
incising
maple (wood)
maple (wood)
Maple
Carved
Incised
BOX
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 1/8 x 9 1/4 x 2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.290
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