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Paint-decorated tin trinket box of rectangular shape with hinged domed lid, ring handle and hinged latch, its sides and top with traces of dark brown ground paint, with paint decoration of swags, fruit and vines in yellow, red and green; contains green and orange painted octagonal checkers.
boxes (containers)
painting (coating)
soldering
tin (metal)
Neoclassical
Tin
Painted
Soldered
Neoclassical
BOX, TRINKET
Inside box, handwritte note (in NFL's writing): ""Wooden checkers/row on board/Sept. 82""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
3 x 4 1/8 x 2 3/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1441
Title Game Board Accession Number 1991.1356
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