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Document Box

Date1775-1825

OriginAmerica or England

MediumDeal, leather, brass, and paper

DimensionsOH:4 1/2"; OW:6 1/8"; OL:11 7/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1930-346

DescriptionDocument box; leather covered box; rectangular in shape; lid has flat top with short, straight sides and is hinged at back on pair of small brass hinges; brass bail handle with pair of small, circular brass rosettes in center of lid; lower part of box deeper than lid with white paper printed all over with tiny dark blue stars; bottom of underside of box covered with page from book overprinted with small black triangles; outside of box covered with black and brown leather trimmed with brass tacks along all edges with quarter circles at front corners and half-oval at front and oval at top; front has quarter circles at bottom corners and a half oval around poitned oval brass escutcheon. Interior of oval, half oval, and quarter circles brown leather, exterior black leather.

Leather on deal with brass tacks and paper lining.