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Rectangular leather covered document box or small trunk with hinged lid; brass posts with oval backplates to support a bale handle at top; edges of top bound with brass studs (plated with copper?) and securing decorative scalloped leather strip and plain piece of leather overhanging edge; bottom with brass studded corners fitted with wrought iron lock and hasp; interior lined with wallpaper of white background with small pink diamond-shaped pattern; traces of old newspaper.
document containers
brass (alloy)
leather
paper (fiber product)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Leather
Brass
Unidentified Paper
BOX, DOCUMENT
Initials ""JSB"" marked on top.
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
4.625 x 12.125 x 6.125 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.739
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