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Rectangular flat top hinged to conforming case, painted green and heightened with red and yellow pinstriped cartnichy, the front freehand decorated with two buildings- (federal style homes) in yellow, red, gray and white. At the top is stenciled with a bowl of flowers and pineapple also in copper. Floor of box lined with printed paper.
document containers
brass (alloy)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
stenciling
Pine
Brass
Stenciled
Painted
Box, Document
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
6 1/8 x 14 1/8 x 8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1281
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