Box
notes: label: Description
content: Plain, curvilinear, lidded box with serpentine ends, reverse-cyma front and back, and flat top and bottom; lid attached with one five-finger hinge at back center. Bottom underside struck with four effaced hallmarks, an indecipherable figure in three-pointed shield, a lion passant facing left in clipped-corner pointed shield, the raised gothic or Old English letters "e c / p" in a trefoil (possible partial strike above), and what appears to be an imperial crown in oval.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0918.23
label: accession number
content: 1977.0918
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0918.23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 6.35 cm x 15.875 cm x 12.065 cm