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1773
GUSN-3293
Very weathered board, rectangular format, with holes in each corner for long-headed handmade nails, with black painted lettering. Unframed.
plaques (flat objects)
oil paint (paint)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Oil
PLAQUE
In black paint across the surface of the board is: 1773. A C/ D C inr/ I B. On a jelly label, in the upper left of the board back, written in fountain pen is: Said to have/been nailed/to the outside/of an old school-/house in/Hopkinton, Mass.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10 1/2 x 29 3/4 x 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1079
Massachusetts (United States)
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