Box, Jewelry
- Object Name:
- Box, Jewelry
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.226
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Box, small jewelry, white paperboard. Removable cover with red trim. Cover imprinted "R. H. Ayer, / Jeweler / Concord, N. H." Appears to be similar color, light tanned paperboard box with applied white paper. On bottom piece, paper extends probably down inside. It covers sides. Overlap on one side, then is folded and wrapped around bottom and extends slightly more than 10th of inch across bottom. Another piece of a tan paper on bottom that covers overlap edges. On top, red paper that extends on inside edges of cover, extends close to top surface. It then is on sides and is folded over and extends onto top surface about 10th of inch. Narrow band of white paper wrapped around edge. Does not extend all the way to top making uniform red border. Top is a single piece of white paper glued to it to cover edges of red that are folded over. Slight red border on top all the way around edge. Top white sheet not perfectly centered making border slightly wider at one edge.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-0.525 W-1 L-1.65 inches Weight-0.5 oz
- Provenance:
- From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H., artifacts.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
- People:
- Ayer, Richard H. (1833-1901)
- Subjects:
- Jewelers, Jewelry, Jewelry stores
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