Box, Needlework

Description

Steam-bent curly maple carrier (a) and lid (b) bands with four swallow tails on the carrier and one on the lid secured by copper tacks. The carrier has a plywood top and bottom headers held by copper tacks. The handle is steam-bent maple which pivots on trunk rivets through handle ends and carrier walls and peened over copper burrs on inside. the inside of the carrier is lined with shiny pink fabric and fitted with needle case (c), "tomato" pincushion (d), strawberry emery (e) and wax cake attached to lining. The exterior of the carrier is varnished over unstained wood.