Constantine’s Rare Woods
notes: label: Description
content: Thomas Constantine opened a cabinet shop in New York in 1812, and in 1818 was asked to make desks and chairs for the new U.S. Senate building in Washington, D.C. The Constantine firm remained going through several generations, and is now located in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. And, in the early 1900s, it began selling wood samples. This cardboard box is marked “Constantine’s Rare Collection of the World’s Fine Woods” and “Albert Constantine & Son, Inc. / New York, N.Y.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0421.08
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0421.008
label: accession number
content: 1993.0421
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Wood Sample
label: Object Name
content: Constantine’s Rare Woods
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 24.765 cm x 11.43 cm