Book-shaped Box

Date

1800-1899

GUSN

GUSN-3003

Description

A carved maple book-shaped box, rectangular with a sliding cover; carved horizontal stripes to the binding area, and has an unfinished light-colored wood that is somewhat crude in construction.

Details

Descriptive Terms

boxes (containers)
carving (processes)
maple (wood)
maple (wood)
Carved
Maple
BOX

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

7 x 4.25 x 1.75 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1485

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