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Domed top, hide-covered rectangular pine trunk with leather hinges and iron latch and lock; lined inside with blocked blue and white paper; covered with hide and brass studs; oval in center of top has initials "MB" in brass studs; iron handles at either end.
trunks (containers)
case furniture
brass (alloy)
hide (collagenous material)
iron (metal)
leather
paper (fiber product)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Hide
Brass
Leather
Unidentified Paper
Iron
TRUNK
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
10.125 x 23.875 x 12.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.337
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