Box
- Object Name:
- Box
- Object ID:
- 2008.016.11
- Creator:
- Gooding, Josiah
Jeweler - Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- 1850
- Description:
- Jewelry box, empty. Square paper box with removable cover. Paper-wrapped around sides and inside cover edge at top. Wrapped just over cover edge outside of top. One piece of paper covering top out to edges over portion of paper that was wrapped over the side. Bottom section of box, paper-wrapped around edges that overlap bottom a little, then wrapped around to inside where it overlaps a little. Printed label adhered to exterior of cover: "JOSIAH GOODING, / IMPORTER OF / WATCHES & JEWELRY, / 83 Washington St / JOY'S BUILDING, / BOSTON." (Various fonts for the writings). Handwritten note inside box: "Ring marked 'Sister L.' formerly property of Susan (Walker) Pickering of Greenland, given me by her daughter L. Lucretia Morse (Pickering) Frink. / It contains hair of Lucretia (Walker) Morse, Mrs. S.F.B. Morse". Later note, written by Henry Shepard, is also in box: "Even if we can't find the ring, I want to keep this note. H."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-0.65 W-2.7 D-2.7 inches Weight-0.3 oz
- Provenance:
- Donated by Klaudia S. Shepard, wife of Henry Shepard. Held ring containing hair of Lucretia Walker Morse (Mrs. Samuel F. B. Morse), owned by Susan Walker Pickering of Greenland, NH. Part of the Perry-Dudley Family Archive and Shepard Collection.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Klaudia S. Shepard
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