Boxed chess set, complete with red and yellow carved and painted chessmen (the horse with animated faces), all within red-painted pine box with sliding cover, of dovetail construction; some pieces with green-felt bottoms.
chess sets
carving (processes)
dovetail joints
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
pine (wood)
Pine
Dovetail
Painted
Turned
Carved
SET, GAME
Written on a NFL jelly label on the bottom of the box: ""Box for/taller set/of painted/wood/chessmen.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1353
Unknown
8.25 x 4.75 x 3.25 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1353AB
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