Rectangular painted wood box with hinged cover and four bun feet. The box depicts a white meeting house and red house on the cover, a landscape scene on the front face and floral designs on the sides. The box was made from Charleston Meeting House fragments and contains multiple notes and a key inside. Accoring to a note in the box, it was made in 1833 by an inmate of the Massachusetts State Prison.
wood (plant material)
paint (coating)
Box
Box
TR2465.4
Unknown
5 3/8 x 9 x 8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of James F. Hunnewell, Jr., Ogden McC. Hunnewell, and Robert C. Hunnewell
2022.27.4
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