Rectangular molded hinged lid with cleats at ends on conforming box. Front carved with interlaced lozenge-shapes enclosing inscription. Box has till and pierced metal lockplate.
Bible boxes
carving (processes)
incising
oak (wood)
Oak
Carved
Seventeenth Century
Incised
BOX
Incised on front: 16 M [round symbol] E 83
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9.33 x 29.75 x 16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.641
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