Update Our ticketing, donations, and membership sales portal is down for scheduled maintenance on the afternoon of 4/11.
It has a rectangular lid with cleated ends and a molded edge with "staple" hinges. It is over a conforming box that is chip-carved with sawtooth rings and a sawtooth front ends, as well as a molded base. Six-board box with no feet. There are no signs of a till. Also, iron lock plate with two keyholes. It is unpainted with an old finish. [see photo neg#47585-A]
Bible boxes
Pine
Carved
BOX, BIBLE
On a typed jelly jar label on the interior side is: Bible Box sold at auction/of John & Esther Fleek/in Byfield, Mass. June/4, 1969. A family heir/loom.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10 x 27.5 x 18 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1165
Massachusetts (United States)
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].
Sign up to our newsletter for our latest news and events
