Butter safe, Canterbury, NH

Object ID:

1974.18224.1

Community:

New Hampshire, Canterbury

Description

Butter safe with dovetailed joints. The front and back faces are slides with half-moon shaped handles cut into the slides. There is a third slide on top which is the center of the three panels that make up the top. This slide has two smaller half-moon cut-outs for finger pulls. When this slide is pulled back a sheet metal box, the width of the slide, is inside. Behind the back and front slides there are two shelves. Behind the shelves the sheet metal box can be seen.

New Hampshire Canterbury

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