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Paint decorated pine bible box, of rectangular form, with hinged molded lid and base on four bun feet; reddish -brown painted ground with stylized, linear flowering vine motif sprigging from foot center with elliptical blossoms in red, white and black. The interior is unpainted and the feet are old but not original, as per NFL. [see photo neg#47476-A]
Bible boxes
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
wire
American Colonial
pine (wood)
Pine
Wire
Painted
Colonial
BOX, BIBLE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11.5 x 24 x 15.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1188
Connecticut (United States)
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