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Round box consisting of lid fitting over conforming bottom; typical glossy, painted black surface with traces of polychrome decoration on top.
snuffboxes
accessories
papier mâché
Container, Snuff
Snuffbox
Snuffbox
On front: ""Danse Plamander"" (commercially available brand of snuff).
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
England
7/8 x 3 1/2 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.608AB
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