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Spice box

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1790-1800

GUSN

GUSN-25054

Description

Circular bandbox w/ straight overlapping nailed seams. Flat circular top. Top and box probably married at a later date. Contents: bark.

Details

Descriptive Terms

spice boxes
cookware
ash (wood)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Ash
BOX, SPICE

Associated Building

Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3.625 x 7.375 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman

Accession Number

1985.307

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