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Fine Early 6½” Blue Pantry Box

Ca. 1870-1880 round pantry box in original Union blue. Superb condition with perfect

in-use wear. This is an interesting box, and two distinctions set it apart. First, it was intentionally made with the top recessed about 1/32 of an inch below the upper edge of the rim. That’s why the paint on the top is almost unmarked, while all the wear normally seen on pantry tops occurred instead to the upper edges of rim. Second, this is one of the few pantries I’ve seen which used only three spaced nails to secure the base lap instead of the more common five or six. Ash and pine. Copper nails and shoemaker’s pegs.

$975