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Book-shaped Box

Date

1800-1899

GUSN

GUSN-3001

Description

Small pine book-shaped box, rectangular with a wooden hinge; stained a reddish-brown with gold painted on "pages"/edges; and a metal pin closure.

Details

Descriptive Terms

boxes (containers)
gilding
metal
pine (wood)
staining
pine (wood)
Pine
Unidentified Metal
Stained
Gilded
BOX

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3.5 x 2.625 x 0.875 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1483

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