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Trunk

Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

GUSN

GUSN-26832

Description

Leather covered box trimmed with brass studs. Brass label "Fayerweather." Label inside "NATHANIEL HAMMATT, / SADDLER / Trunk and Harness Maker/ Opposite WEST ROW-CAMBRIDGE STREET, / BOSTON." Interior lined with marblized paper.

Details

Descriptive Terms

trunks (containers)
accessories
case furniture
Trunk

Label

In exhibit "Boxes: Open and Shut" at SPNEA's One Bowdoin Square Gallery May 15, 2001 to October 2001. The exhibit then traveled to Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, MA where objects were on display from November 2001 to May 6, 2002. *** This object only in OBS venue.

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Bequest of Eleanor Fayerweather

Accession Number

1993.729

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