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GUSN-29521
Housewife with an outside and bottom pocket of brown silk with flannels for needles. The inside of the roll is lined with tan silk and checked green taffeta and is embroidered with a green vine in an outline stitch.
housewives (containers)
silk (textile)
taffeta
Case, Thread
"S.M"
Moors, Sally, 1780- (Maker)
MA
Anonymous Gift
1922.455
Possibly Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly Groton (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
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