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Small brass bound, hide covered wooden trunk with brass tack decoration. Domed lid has broken handle. Interior lined wallpaper block-printed with red and white pattern on blue ground. Wallpaper covers an earlier layer of paper with handwriting on it.
document containers
trunks (containers)
brass (alloy)
hide (collagenous material)
wallpapers
wood (plant material)
Container, Document
Trunk, Document
Trunk, Document
To be exhibited as part of the Sarah Moore Field Collection.
286
Unknown
9 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Sarah Moore Field Collection
1998.5937
Block Printed
Trunk Liner
Blue
Original
Machine Made
Paper
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