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Small Pennsylvania Trinket Box

An unusually small example of the kind of 19th box often erroneously identified as solely Scandinavian. Oval pine bentwood body with splint-sewn laps and notched latches at each end to secure the top. Sides and top are decorated with impressed geometric designs. The underside is signed “Mary.” These work boxes are the products of the northern European culture that includes Norway, Sweden and Germany, and the geometric designs on this box match those on a box of identical construction in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Museum curators attribute that box to Pennsylvania where this box was also found. 6¼”L x 4”H.

$695