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Nail construction (flat-headed nails), shaped cut-out handle, bottom with lip, light-weight wood, unpainted.
knife cases
miniatures (toys)
pine (wood)
Pine
Box
Inscribed in pen on white label taped to base bottom: ""Miniature Knife Box/by William S. Tower/South Hingham, Mass.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Tower, William S. (Maker)
South Hingham, MA, USA
2.063 x 4.438 x 2.938 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.679
Massachusetts (United States)
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