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Paint decorated wooden round box, high-sided with fitted lid, secured with hand-wrought nails; red painted ground and black squiggly painted lines; the top has a pinwheel and swag border in the same style.
boxes (containers)
bentwood
cedar (wood)
nailing
painting (coating)
Cedar
Bentwood
Painted
Nailed
BOX
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1542A,B
Unknown
8.375 (H), 12.75 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1542AB
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