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The box has a rounded top on a tall backboard that is pierced with a circular hanging hole over a rectangular open nail constructed box. It is pained in red and grained in black, green and yellow. The backboard is painted to imitate a "knot" in the wood.
boxes (containers)
graining
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Painted
Grain painted
Box, Wall
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
17 x 7 7/8 x 5 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1114
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