A carved maple book-shaped box, rectangular with a sliding cover; carved horizontal stripes to the binding area, and has an unfinished light-colored wood that is somewhat crude in construction.
boxes (containers)
carving (processes)
maple (wood)
maple (wood)
Carved
Maple
BOX
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 x 4.25 x 1.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1485
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