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1750-1850
GUSN-8615
Tin box with handles containing whale oil lamp and covered with removable soapstone piece. Decorative ridges throughout.
heat-distributing units
perforating
soapstone (metamorphic rock)
tin (metal)
Tin
Soapstone
Perforated
WARMER, FOOT
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4.25 x 6.5 x 9.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.707
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