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Snuff box
18th century
Object Place: probably Massachusetts, New England
Medium/Technique
Wood, birch bark
Dimensions
Overall: 2.5 x 8.9 x 5.1 cm (1 x 3 1/2 x 2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edwin L. Howard
Accession Number67.979
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsBoxes
DescriptionA small box with relief carving on its lid portraying the death of Gen. Joseph Warren at Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, at age 31. The general is depicted falling from his horse in the foreground, with infantrymen and cavalry fighting in the background. There is cross-hatching and leafage around the sides. The bottom and inside of the the lid are birch bark. The hinges are metal.
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"
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)