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Rectangular hinged lid with a molded edge over a conforming box with a flat base and wire handles on the sides painted brown-red. The interior is filled with 12 square compartments each holding a blown green glass liquor (gin) bottle and a corkscrew. The bottles are in various forms.
accessories
case furniture
glass (material)
glassblowing
pine (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
Pine
Glass
Painted
Blown
CHEST, LIQUOR
On a typed paper jelly jar label on the inside lid reads: Case of bottles from/""Highfields"", Byfield, from Geo. William Adams,/1938 Purchased with many/other family heirlooms.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1073
Unknown
11.75 x 18.125 x 13.25 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1073.1
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