Box, Wall
- Object Name:
- Box, Wall
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.55
- Description:
- Wall box. Pine pipe box. Wood, brass, and steel. Light brown soft wood. Main body consists of back board with open box and rectangular drawer below it at bottom. Straight sides with curved shoulders that go up slightly to small, semi-circular top point on flat panel on back. Oval hanging hole top center, 0.5" wide x 0.55" high. Thin bottom piece with beveled edges that protrudes slightly under drawer and box section. Box ~0.3" thick. Drawer and box section 6.4" high x 7.9" wide. Back corner of box is overlap joint. Sides and front 0.5" thick. Front of box is single piece that sets into a dado on front edge. Bottom flush on front and back inside surfaces and sets into groove on sides. Drawer front 7" wide x 2.5" high. Front and back pieces joined to sides with dovetail joints. Bottom piece nailed to front, sides, and back. Narrow, rectangular nails on bottom. Nails on front of drawer round and flat. Round brass pull knob on front with dome front surface and double-taper shaft. Knob appears to have wood screw thread on it, but there is squarish, flat brass nut on inside of drawer. Slim rectangular nails used to hold sides in place. About three different styles of nails holding bottom piece on from bottom surface. Edges of drawer and box rounded from wear. Two horizontal layout lines on back surface near top. Two small horizontal layout lines at top, above hole and partially through hole. Typescript paper label on back near bottom: "New Hampshire Historical Society / Concord, N. H. Pipe box, pine. Miss Jessie M. Tilney / August, 1947."
- Material:
- Wood
Brass
Steel
Pine - Dimensions:
- H-17.4 W-8.4 D-5.3 inches Weight-34.2 oz
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro), between 1895 and 1913.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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