Pouch
- Object Name:
- Pouch
- Object ID:
- 2002.023.03
- Date:
- circa 1800
- Description:
- Pouch or briefcase, owned by Nicholas Gilman (1755-1814). Leather exterior, cardboard interior. Rectangular light brown leather case with decorative hand-tooled border around edges of front and back. Leather on back reddish brown. Expanding accordion folded sides. Top a slightly darker brown leather sewn onto back, folds over top opening, flap tucks into leather band on front of case. Band same darker brown leather as top. Both top and band have a simpler hand-tooled chain decoration. Interior lined with cardboard, with a cardboard divider creating two pockets. Cardboard covered with greenish-blue paper with a stripe of marbled red, white and greenish-blue paper across top. Handwritten in ink inside top piece: "Nich. Gilman / Exeter / New Hampshire." Leather patch on front bottom left corner.
- Material:
- Leather
Paper - Dimensions:
- H-2 W-17.5 L-11 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Perry-Dudley Family Archive and Shepard Collection. Said to have belonged to Senator Nicholas Gilman (1755-1814) of Exeter, NH. The donor is a descendant of Nicholas' brother Nathaniel. Senator Gilman's biographical information is in the accession folder.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Shepard, Jr., in memory of Mr. Shepard's mother and maternal grandmother
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