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A painted pine box in the form of a miniature blanket chest on four black ball feet, with (re)hinged top and molding to the base. It is painted a light blue with a white trim, a four petal red flower is in the center of the front panel, with small incised 6-pointed flowers at the corners. There are two compartments on the inside, and the box is dovetailed and glued.
miniatures (toys)
blanket chests
case furniture
dovetail joints
gluing
incising
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
floral patterns
pine (wood)
Pine
Dovetail
Turned
Painted
Floral
Glued
Incised
Box, Trinket
Handwritten on a jelly label inside the box lid is: Painted/box/from/Maine . Some initials are crudely scratched on the back panel, they are: MED
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 x 12.25 x 5.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1258
Maine (United States)
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