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Small Signed Bottle-Green Massachusetts Pantry Box 

Very good 5¾” pantry box in an unusual shade of original bottle green paint, with the thick-walled construction and dome-headed nails of early boxes. Impressed signature of Orlando Mason, Winchendon, MA on the underside of the lid. Vermont-born, Mason left teaching in 1844 to learn the woodenware trade from Ephraim Murdock in Winchendon, MA and in 1853 began making pantry boxes and pails under his own name. Scarce size, great paint, known maker.

$795