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Spice box with cover

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1815-1850

GUSN

GUSN-8260

Description

Oval form with fitted cover. Straight lap held with irom tacks at base and cover. Painted blue-green.

Details

Descriptive Terms

spice boxes
cookware
Pine
Maple
Bentwood
Painted
Tacked
BOX, SPICE

Inscription

Impressed at top of corner: T.A.B.

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

1991.380A,B

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

2 x 5 1/4 x 3 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.380AB

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