Box, Trinket

Object Name:

Box, Trinket

Object ID:

1940.008.09

Description:

Box, trinket, rectangular. Paper box with jet beads inside, colored litho. Paperboard core with small, blue, printed design on a light-colored paper that is wrapped around sides of box. Overlaps bottom edge by about 0.4" and is glued down. Paper also overlaps inside edge of bottom section, also glued down. Blue paper on sides of cover and wrapped around to inside where it overlaps slightly. On box cover, thin, gold-tone paper that creates border around top edge, partway on side and partway on top. Separate paper that covers top surface that overlaps gold-tone border. Paper, hand-colored print of two people working in vineyard. Man on left facing right, wearing wide-brimmed hat, light-colored with long sleeves, long blue pants. Wearing slightly pink neckerchief. Holding slightly conical basket with looped handle in his right hand. Behind him are green plants with some vertical stakes in them. Next to basket, tall, slightly cone-shaped container (barrel) with staves and bands around top and bottom. Woman standing to right of container, facing left. Emptying small round fruit from basket in to barrel. Wearing brownish hat, one-piece dress that has apron on front that may extend upward to neck. Wide, bluish collar over her shoulders. Dress short sleeves. Dress red and fairly full and extends to about a foot off the ground. Apron tan with thin black border around edges. Some green plants behind her and to the right. They are standing in grassy area. Dressed stone block which supports the tall barrel container. Some green and brownish plant materials at bottom. Traces of slight blue sky at top. Otherwise, print has fair amount of surface dirt. Bottom surface of bottom section of box, faded, pinkish paper to finish bottom. Textile adhesive label on bottom with rather faded handwriting, "Gift of M H Jewell 1940". Small piece of slightly-stained paper inside box, glued to one side. Box contains piece of loose light-brown paper tissue with some staining on it of small irregular dark brown spots. Quite a few jet glass tubes inside box. A couple of small thread sections interspersed. Many of the tubes, 0.32" long. About dozen and half small jet beads or very short tube sections. Otherwise, most of the beads are fairly uniform in diameter and in length. Probably four or five common lengths. Most of those being in the 0.27" to 0.36" in length.

Material:

Paper
Glass

Dimensions:

H-1.6 W-3.3 L-4.8 inches Weight-1.35 oz

Credit Line:

Gift of Margaret H. Jewell

People:

Jewell, Margaret H. (1866-1970)