Box, Storage

Oval carrier, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:
1961.12756.1a,b
Community:
New York, Mount Lebanon
Makers
Shaker
Description

Steam-bent maple box (a) and lid (b) rims. Four swallow-tails on the box, and one on the lid, secured with copper tacks. White pine headers held by copper points. Steam-bent ash swing handle secured by copper rivets spaced out for lid clearance with square machine nuts and which are peened over copper burrs on the interior. Probably washed with yellow and varnished over.

New York Mount Lebanon

New York Mount Lebanon

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