Spice Box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Dover Stamping Company
notes: label: Description
content: Circular spice box with scrolled hasp lock on front, gilt brass post-and-bail handle encircled by a raised bead, gold band and red penciling on low-domed lid, and one hinge at back; golden-brown japanned exterior and interior. Contains seven, identical, cylindrical tins with low-domed, friction-fit covers, each gilt stenciled with the name of their contents: "ALLSPICE", "CINNAMON", "CLOVES", "GINGER", "MACE", "NUTMEGS", and "PEPPER".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anonymous
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0541.1
label: accession number
content: 1988.0541
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0541.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, spice
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (overall finish material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (lid decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (handle gilding; stenciling material)
label: Measurements
content: canister: 4 1/16 in x 8 3/4 in; 10.31875 cm x 22.225 cm
label: Measurements
content: skakers: 2 13/16 in x 2 9/16 in; 7.14375 cm x 6.50875 cm