Trunk
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800 - 1842
notes: label: Description
content: Yellow-painted, flat-top box with scrolled hasp lock on front, circular wire ring handle on top, and two hinges at back. A variety of red flowers with translucent white overstrokes, red strawberries and cherries with alizarin accents, and green leaves, some with black veins and all on green stems, fill the box front; box sides are plain. A faint green leafy design and penciling are visible on the lid top; a red and green, line-rope-and-leaf band is on the lid front and sides, some elements possibly stenciled. One-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: Flat-top, painted tinware trunks are considered to be unique to the Stevens Tinshop of Stevens Plains (now Westbrook), ME, circa 1800-1842.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maine, Westbrook
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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: 1978.0119.10
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.10
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: iron wire (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 8 7/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 15.5575 cm x 22.5425 cm x 13.335 cm