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The Massachusetts Collection of Maryellen and Brendan O'Toole
Lot 14

Miniature Grain-Painted Step Back Cupboard,
Groton, Massachusetts, c. 1900.

18 November 2022, 10:00 EST
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sold for US$637.50 inc. premium

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Miniature Grain-Painted Step Back Cupboard,

Groton, Massachusetts, c. 1900.
Case joined with cut nails, internal shelves through-tenoned to side walls, doors open on square iron hinges and wooden latches attached with modern screws, molded horizontal edges and carved bracket feet, traces of old paper lining on bottom shelf, exterior sides and front painted to simulate chestnut grain, (surface stains, minor chips), 22cm wide, 12cm deep, 53cm high (9 1/4in wide, 5 3/4in deep, 21 1/2in high).

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Pam Boynton, Groton, Massachusetts, August 1998; a note from Maryellen O'Toole dated 21 October 2019: "Bredon says, 'Where'd you get that?' Pam says, 'From under my bed. Some old carpenter in Groton made it.' ... Pam always said she had the best stuff under the bed."

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