From collection Mount Desert Island Historical Society - Objects Collection
Box
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.
Details
4" h 9" l 6" w
MDIHS: Sound School House, Row #4, Unit #1, Shelf 2, Bag
12/09/1997
12/19/2022
09/19/2024
