Trunk
date: label: date made
content: ca 1814 - 1870
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned, dome-top box with scrolled hasp lock on front, circular wire ring handle on top, and two hinges at back. Box front is painted with a right-leaning sprig of two red tuliplike flowers with yellow-dotted centers surrounded by four stems of red and blue buds, two long and two short, all with alizarin and white overtones; and by white-veined, smooth- and serrated-edge green leaves and green, yellow, and translucent white leaflets. Box sides each have a four-arm, red-and-green pinwheel; thin yellow and thick red bands border lid top. Three-piece lid has a wire-rolled rim. Three-piece box has a top edge folded with wire bead below and a flat bottom. Tinned interior. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the New York Filley Tinshop, started by Augustus Filley (1789-1845), of Lansingburgh, NY, circa 1814-1870.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Lansingburgh
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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: 1978.0119.20
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trunk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims; handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 8 3/8 in x 3 5/8 in; 12.7 cm x 21.2725 cm x 9.2075 cm