Trunk
date: label: date made
content: ca 1790 - 1841
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. Golden-brown mottled asphaltum ground is painted on the box front and sides with a wide red band overpainted with alizarin and green brushstokes and green dot circles above a vine of right-facing, red crab flowers, yellow dot circles, and green leafy stems; elongated yellow S strokes along base. Lid has a four-arm, red-, yellow-and-green pinwheel and yellow dot circles on top; yellow apostrophe brushstrokes are on the front and sides. Three-piece lid has a wire-rolled rim. Three-piece box has a top edge folded with wire bead below and a flat bottom. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the North Tinshop of Fly Creek, NY, circa 1790-1841.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Fly Creek
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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: 1978.0119.12
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trunk
label: Other Terms
content: Trunk; 41Cc, Sullivan, Michael D
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: 6 in x 9 in x 5 in; 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm x 12.7 cm