Important masonic rectangular lift-top box painted vermillion red ground with masonic designs (including pillars, compass & square, beehive, hammer & chisel, trees, eye of god) in gold, black and green on front and top. A single stepped oval handle on top of the hinged lid. Lock removed to reveal empty escutcheons cut out.
boxes (containers)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Masonic Symbol
BOX
Painted in gold on box lid ""R. Blood""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4.5 x 14 x 7.875 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.945
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