Title
Faneuil Hall Box
Mediumwhale skeletal bone, wood
Dimensions4 1/4 × 5 3/4 × 7 in. (10.8 × 14.6 × 17.8 cm)
Donor credit lineGift of Mr. & Mrs. F. Gilbert Hinsdale
Object number1959.8.5
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionOval ditty box. Wooden bottom; wooden lid with plain baleen skirt, the top inset with an oval panbone plaque with a monochrome engraved scene of Faneuil Hall, Boston, and the edges relief carved with a sawtooth border; the sides monochrome engraved: an elegant four-chimney brick colonial house, with wall, landscaping, and staffing; a waterside parkland scene with trees, staffing, and short obelisk monumet, inscribed in block capitals "PENN SOCIETY / AD 1827 / GREAT / ELM TREE."; sidewheel steamer underway and flying the American flag at the stern; deer hunting scene: two men with rifles (one shooting), a dog, and two rampant stags; five pierced and pointed rattails; circumferential diamond-pattern border along the bottom edge; non-ferrous fastenings. See 2011.1.4, source for image.ProvenanceMartha M. Hinsdale Scrimshaw Collection; Estate of Martha M. Hinsdale, bequeathed 1955.On View
On view
circa 1835-1845
circa 1835-1845
Circa 1860
19th Century
19th Century
19th Century
Circa 1840-1860
Rogers, Manuel J.
