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A box- possibly a Spruce gum box. In the shape of a book, the cover of a book with a sliding cover, all over chip-carved decorated of sawtoothed edged circles and eight pointed stars, X's and lines. It is unpainted.
boxes (containers)
chip carving
pine (wood)
Box
Box
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 x 2 3/4 x 2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1484
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