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Paint decorated ash and pine large, round bandbox with flat, cloth-hinged cover; black ground has white, tan and red florid heraldic decoration along with wavy V-shaped designs running the height of the box; secured with hard-wrought nails.
bandboxes (containers)
accessories
ash (wood)
bentwood
nailing
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
bandboxes (containers)
coats of arms
pine (wood)
Pine
Ash
Bentwood
Painted
Nailed
Coat-of-Arms
BANDBOX
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
13 (H), 15.25 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1541
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