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1997.25.3.1

Turned wooden box [.1] with lid [.2]. Inside are six circular hollows, three hold black boxes with lids [.3-.5], three hold orange boxes with ever smaller boxes inside, some with lids [.6-.19]. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/3/2005]

1997.25.3.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Turned wooden box [.1] with lid [.2]. Inside are six circular hollows, three hold black boxes with lids [.3-.5], three hold orange boxes with ever smaller boxes inside, some with lids [.6-.19]. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/3/2005]
Person
Field collector Edward Goodman Sheward
Field collector Charles R. Sheward
PRM source Mrs M.W. Cordy
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1890?, uncertain
Date collected
Before 1890?
Acquisition information
Donated: 18/07/1997
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Turned, Process Painted, Process Perforated, Process Carpentered
Dimensions
Diameter: max 90 mm, Diameter: max 4 mm, Diameter: max 87 mm, Height: max 35 mm, Diameter: max 21 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1997.25.3.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.3.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.3.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.4.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.4.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.5.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.5.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.6.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.6.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.7.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.7.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.8 Accession number: 1997.25.3.9.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.9.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.10.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.10.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.11 Accession number: 1997.25.3.12.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.12.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.13.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.13.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.14.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.14.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.15 Accession number: 1997.25.3.16.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.16.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.17 Accession number: 1997.25.3.18.1 Accession number: 1997.25.3.18.2 Accession number: 1997.25.3.19
Research and responses

Edward Goodman Sheward [Mrs M.W. Cordy's grandfather] or ? Charles R. Sheward [Mrs M.W. Cordy's uncle] see biographies [AP 11/06/2014]

Search terms: Box, Toy and Game, Lid, Toy, Game

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