Cake Box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1865
notes: label: Description
content: Circular box with a friction-fit, flat-top cover; no handles. Wire-rimmed lid has three soft-soldered, lapped-seam pieces for the sides and an overhanging, folded-edge top. Four-piece, wire-rimmed box has three folded, vertical seams for the sides and a flat bottom with folded edge. Lid marked "K" in black crayon or graphite at center; remnant of small paper label at lower left. One of two covered boxes, 65.702A-B.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Faith Bradford
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.65.0702A
label: catalog number
content: 65.0702A
label: accession number
content: 242615
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, cake
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 13 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 34.29 cm