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Sugar Box

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1840-1860

GUSN

GUSN-2346

Description

Round, bentwood form with straight lap held by brass tacks and arched swing handle held by wood pegs. Fitted flat top cover. Painted green.

Details

Descriptive Terms

sugar boxes
cookware
bentwood
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
Oak
Pine
Bentwood
Painted
Box, Spice

Inscription

Impressed on cover top: [ ] Hyde [blurred; very difficult to read] WINCHENDON Pencil at underside of cover: TODD

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

6 1/4 (H), 12 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.354

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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