Box or Trunk
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1875
notes: label: Description
content: Gilt-stenciled, japanned dome-top trunk or lidded box with scrolled hasp lock on front, circular wire ring handle on top, and two hinges at back. Faint symmetrical floral design is on the box front and even fainter traces of a stenciled border are on lid top. Three-piece lid has a wire-rolled front rim and three folded edges. Three-piece box has a folded top edge with wire bead below and a flat bottom. Tinned interior. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: United States, Northeastern
label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.245425.0081
label: catalog number
content: 245425.0081
label: accession number
content: 245425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trunk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims; handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 6 in x 3 5/8 in; 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm x 9.2075 cm