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Painted and decorated pine knife or candle box, of long rectangular form. Has pin-hinged carved lid, wooden peg construction, painted with an allover grey-blue and paint-decorated with black freehand scrolling vine and sunburst designs on the top and three sides.
boxes (containers)
metal
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
sunbursts
Pine
Unidentified Metal
Pegged
Painted
Sunburst
BOX
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4.25 x 12.5 x 4.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1257
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