Boxed Set of Watercolor Paints
date: label: date made
content: ca 1829 - 1849
notes: label: Description
content: "Osborne's American Toy Water-Colours" consisting of a small, rectangular, slide lid box containing 17 rectangular cakes of watercolor paint. The box is divided into three, equal-size, widthwise rows: the top two have wooden dividers for holding 6 cakes each, all embossed with seashells on their fronts, and are labeled across the row dividers with the names of the pigments; the bottom row (originally for housing brushes) has five larger cakes, all embossed with a five-pearl coronet on their fronts, and bears the manufacturer's and seller's label of "[D. B.] SMITH & W. HODGSON, JR.'S / DRUG AND CHEMICAL STORE, NORTHEAST CORNER OF ARCH AND SIXTH STREETS, PHILADA."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place sold
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anonymous Gift
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0470.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0470
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0470.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: paints, set of
label: Object Name
content: box, artist's
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (box lid, sides, and dividers material)
label: Physical Description
content: poplar (box bottom material)
label: Physical Description
content: pigment (watercolor cakes material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (labels material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper, wove (labels material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 2.2225 cm x 13.335 cm x 6.35 cm