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Lot 199
Sale 5994 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 12, 2019
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,000 -
2,000
Price Realized
$1,125
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Group of four paint-decorated boxes New Hampshire and New England, 19th century
Comprising a green-painted wood box, with yellow edges and monogram "E.A.W.", retaining 19th-century newsprint clippings; a blue-painted box, the underside of lid pencil-inscribed, "Hattie C. Mason/Raymond, N. Hampshire/Candice/Dear Mason, I have been thinking of writing to you for some time."; and two oval pantry boxes, one stamped "I. Whiton" and the other indistinctly stamped "Be... Be..."
H: 5 in. W: 6 in. L: 12 in. (green-painted box)