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Grain painted maple and ash box of oval form with wooden snap/spring fitted with conforming lid trimmed with dark green paint; the lid also has a metalwire bail handle and cut out ends to fit wooden springs that stand upright at each side; bentwood lap secured with stitched straw or rush; nails around bottom; the graining is finely handled in reddish brown strips of patterning on ochre-yellow ground (top securely snaps shut).
boxes (containers)
ash (wood)
bentwood
graining
maple (wood)
rush (material)
straw (plant material)
wire
maple (wood)
rush (material)
Maple
Ash
Straw
Rush
Wire
Bentwood
Painted
Box
Handwritten on a label on the underside of the lid: ""Grained box/ from/New Hampshire""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 1/2 x 12 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1540
Probably New Hampshire (United States)
Probably
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