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Small box made of whale panbone with a lid with a pierced gallery and an incised decoration of a Federal-style building, a tomb, and a farm.
bandboxes (containers)
carving (processes)
ivory (tooth component)
Box, Accessory
Bandbox
Bandbox
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
3 3/8 x 6 7/8 x 5 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.4293
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