Box, Storage

Description

Round carrier for hardware. Steam-bent ash band and hickory handle encircling a white pine bottom header. Single broad overlapping finger of carrier band secured with iron tacks as is the hickory handle to the outside of the carrier. The inside is divided into unequal size compartments with pieces of white pine arranged as spokes of a wheel. On top of the center juncture of the partitions is a number 10 oval box with a steam-bent maple band having two swallowtails secured by copper tacks surrounding a white pine bottom header. The exterior is painted yellow. The compartments have paper labels or remnants there of as well as some pencil inscriptions on the wood itself. The largest compartment has a paper label with pencil script "2 inch c...?", written on wood "inch", glued to wood a printed label from a tack box "12 OZ LARGE HEAD CARPET TACKS / PITTSFIELD TACK CO. Pittsfield, Mass.". The next compartment to the right has two paper label remnants one over the other: in pencil on the bottom one "..? LOOM", printed on top one "A.FL...? & SOU/LA...?". The next compartment to the right has "6 FI..?". The larger compartment has a white paper label with "BRADS" written in pencil, and to its right in the same compartment is "ALL/SO..?". The next compartment to the right has a paper label with penciled "3/4 FINISH". The last compartment has a paper label with penciled "1 1/2...?" over another penciled inscription that ends with "FINISH". There is a remnant of a paper label on the end of the oval box nailed to the top at the center on which a penciled "3" is still visible.

Notes

When acquired, the box contained bolts, screws, nails, and other hardware as well as a piece of leather belting.