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Squared mahogany veneered body with yellow painted diamond shaped escutcheon, fitted with a mirror in lid, shelf and pin cushion; interior lined with pink, orange and red paper; contains assorted sewing accessories, needles in packages, thread, pins, thimbles, beeswax, fasteners; also contains thimbles numbers 1977.711.1-.2 and 1977.712 .1-.2.
sewing boxes
needlework (visual works)
mahogany (wood)
veneer
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
sewing (process)
Pine
Mahogany Veneer
Sewing
BOX, NEEDLEWORK
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
3.438 x 10.063 x 7.063 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.710
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