Description: Woven brown, tan, reds, black. Bottom leather. Top trimmed with leather and leather straps. Leather handle. Lined with tan and blue striped fabric. Donor info - belonged to Capt. Nathaniel Bracket. Carried on his vessel. Later owned by his son Frederick Bracket the mail carrier of Otisfield, Maine. Used to carry mail. Marked, “FBP Otisfield, Maine”.
Description: This light green bottle (soft mint color) is 8 inches high with a circumference of almost 8 inches. The height of the neck is about 2 inches. At the center of the base is a stamped mark which looks like a zero in a square. The bottle has 12 faces, each one measuring about 11/16s. There are several scratch marks. There is no top present.
Description: This clear glass bottle has the letters The Bayer Company, Inc written vertically on the sides. It is 2 and three quarters high and has a circumference of 4 and a quarter inches. The bottle is missing a top and has some dark stains on one side.
Description: Bar Harbor Bottling Works crate. Marked Bar Harbor Bottling Works, Bar Harbor on all sides. Marked Registered on both ends. Metal strapping nailed around ends of box. Space for 12 bottles. Signs of infestation on bottom of box. Some rust on metal. Donor info - purchased in antique store in Brewer.
Description: Rectangular tray with black background of white flowers and green leaves, light blue forget-me-nots. Large flowers outlined in red or yellow with yellow centers. Paint chipped.
Description: S. O. Richardson's Somesville Brass Band box , for carrying sheets of music and music clip. May have belonged to Samuel Osgood Richardson (1842-1910). Some of the sheets of music are handwritten, others printed. Brown and gold decorated box lined with blue fabric. Per Raymond Strout, came from Kittredge family house in Somesville (7/28/11, AB)
Description: Box for "Raphael Reversible Collars." "Linene" Trade Mark Reversible Collars and Cuffs described and pictures on bottom of box. Cuffs and collars manufactured in Cambridge, MA. Originally patented in 1877.
Description: Covered with purple paper. Decorative gold paper in corners. Pastoral scene in oval frame in center of lid. Cooper or brass latch. Lace hinges inside. Sides lined with paper lace some torn. Under lid decorative paper covering sachet. Sits on four small legs 1/4” high.