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Wedding favor box

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Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1962

GUSN

GUSN-244672

Description

White cardboard box with lid, containing five sugared almonds. Intended as a wedding favor. Box lid is stamped with gold-colored lettering. The box is bound with a white satin ribbon.

Details

Descriptive Terms

favors
cardboard
satin
Box

Inscription

"[wedding bell graphic] / Ginny and Bill / March 10, 1962" (printed)

Additional Identification Number

66.4

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1 1/16 x 2 7/8 x 1 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)

Accession Number

2010.17.4.4AB

Date

1962 (From the wedding of Virginia Ramsdell and Vasilios Theodore William Vasiliou)

Places

United States

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