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Rectangular box form with domed, hinged lid; covered with brown leather with scrolled and floral tooled and gilt decoration; detached square inner compartment; inside of box completely lined with black watered silk.
boxes (containers)
brass (alloy)
leather
silk (textile)
wood (plant material)
Leather
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BOX
On bottom of box are a pair of stickers, blue with inked in numbers ""230"" ""23/042"" and another, mostly torn off.
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Italy
5 (H) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.636
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