Green-painted tamarack spice box with sliding cover over six compartments. Cover with shaped handle containing a heart. Cover also decorated with chip carving. Carved encircled six-pointed star/flower.
spice boxes
cookware
chip carving
dovetail joints
painting (coating)
western larch (wood)
Tamarack
Painted
Carved
Dovetail
Box, Spice
Carved on cover: BK AD/1769
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.404
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