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Spice Box

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1858

GUSN

GUSN-55154

Description

Set of nine spice boxes of stained wood, circular bandboxes with individual stenciled canisters.

Details

Descriptive Terms

spice boxes
cookware
pine (wood)
Box, Food Storage
Box, Spice
Box, Spice

Associated Building

Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),

Maker

Patent Package Co. (Maker)

Location of Origin

Newark, NJ, USA

Credit Line

Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann

Accession Number

1942.3397.2

Places

New Jersey (United States)

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