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Hanging candlebox in New England saltbox style. Painted dark red. Slanted cover attached with wire hinges.
candle boxes
nailing
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Nailed
Box, Candle
In exhibit "Boxes: Open and Shut" at SPNEA's One Bowdoin Square Gallery May 15, 2001 to October 2001. The exhibit then traveled to Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, MA where objects were on display from November 2001 to May 6, 2002.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
16 x 11.75 x 8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.598
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