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| Box Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Box covered with flowered paper. Made of cardboard. Lid has red cushion top Embroidered design on top. Number 239 is written on tape on the side of the box. Inside the box are trinkets: 3 miniature pewter spoons; 1 Lilac Sweets perfume bottle; one hair pin with glass flower; one brooch with with two leaves and a flower with glass inset; 10 miscellaneous buttons, one sewn on cloth; and one unknown piece of wood or ivory that would screw into another object. [show more] | |||||
Box Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Box Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Shell-covered box with hinged cover. Lined with purple velvet. Mirror inside cover framed by metal basket-weave pattern. Covered with small tropical shells - cones, knucklebones, nautica, sunset clams and limpets. Donor info - made by Emma Frances Somes, daughter of Abraham Somes III, sister of Thaddeus Shepley Somes. She died at age 22. |