Box

Box with slide lid, Hancock, MA

Object ID:
1959.10900.1
Community:
Massachusetts, Hancock
Description

Slide-lid box with sides and lid of pigmented figure sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua) and nailed on bottom of basswod (Tilia americana). Sides are butted and nailed. Painted red. Originally contained assorted hardware including insulated staples, straight pins, flat-head wood screws, decorative head brass tacks, thumb tacks, iron tacks, large bent copper tacks, etc. catalogued separately as 1959.10900.2.

Massachusetts Hancock

Massachusetts Hancock

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