Bucks County, Pennsylvania Tiger Maple Double-Lidded Cutlery Box
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Description
A Pennsylvania Tiger Maple Double-Lidded Cutlery Tray / Box, Bucks County, First Half 19th Century. The dovetailed box having a hinged lid to either side, divided by a shaped handle with crescent-form cut-out, raised on ball feet mortised through the bottom board. The interior with an old typed oral provenance inscribed,
"This knife box was given to Elizabeth Palmer by Cynthia Holcomb. A prominent Quaker from Pineville who was a farm journal correspondent - Nom de Plume Mary Sydney. Her father kept his horses at the "friends's home" and was a bank Director - First National."
Dimensions: Height 9 1/4in; width 13 1/2in; depth 10 1/4in.
Provenance: Cynthia S. Holcomb (Bucks County, Pennsylvania, d. 1913).
Property from the Collection of C. Thomas Attix Jr., East Windsor, New Jersey.
Condition
Retaining an old rich, untouched surface. General marks, wear, nicks, abrasions and surface scratches.
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