Cash Box
date: label: date made
content: late 19th or early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular lidded box with key lock on front, brass post-and-bail handle on stamped top, and two hinges at back. Exterior and interior are japanned black with a yellow border around the raised, cyma bracketed rectangle across lid and with gilt penciling or striping around the lid and box edges. Lid and box are made of five pieces, their sides held together by wire rims and the lid top and flat box bottom folded onto sides. Small pieces of blue felt near bottom of interior. No marks. No key.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New 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.251349.0028
label: catalog number
content: 251349.0028
label: accession number
content: 251349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, cash
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (handle; escutcheon; lock material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (locking mechanism material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 10 7/8 in x 7 3/8 in; 12.065 cm x 27.6225 cm x 18.7325 cm