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Grain-painted pine watch case, of rectangular form, with a molded base and a shaped crest with and open carved heat at the center. The front has a sliding cover with a glassed round aperature for showing the pocketwatch which hangs inside. It has a grained red ground with black streaks. The case holds a neo-classical decorated pocketwatch, #1991.1477.
cases (containers)
watches
glass (material)
graining
nailing
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Nailed
Glass
CASE, WATCH
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9.5 x 4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1476
Title Pocketwatch Accession Number 1991.1477
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