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Snuff box

18th century

Object Placeprobably Massachusetts, New England

Medium/TechniqueWood, birch bark

DimensionsOverall: 2.5 x 8.9 x 5.1 cm (1 x 3 1/2 x 2 in.)

Credit LineGift of Edwin L. Howard

Accession number67.979

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ClassificationsBoxes

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InscriptionsA jelly label glued to underside of piece records: "#2000 / [crossed out section] PF / c1775 / Death of / Gen. Warren / Chas F Quincy /collection" A handwritten note that descended with the box records: "Old hand carved snuff box / portraying Death of / General Warren. / Revolutionary period, 1775 / (15)" A second note reads: "Joseph Warren / Roxbury, Mass 1741 / Bunker Hill June 1775 31 years old / Prescotts Redoubt / The [first/] great martyr within / [illegible] "Webster Bunker Hill / oration"

ProvenanceGift of Edwin L. Howard, Westport, Connecticut, 1967 (Accession Date November 8, 1967)