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Red-painted wooden box; slightly domed lid scratch-decorated with fans and palmettes; leaf carvings on three sides; front panel has inscribed name; sawtooth carving border overall; delicate copper-wire hinges and latch.
boxes (containers)
incising
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Painted
Incised
Wood
Box
Carved on front panel: ""SETH WHITMore"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
3 1/4 x 5 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.241
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