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Carter No.: 267c

Handlist description: Lid of an inlaid gold box worked à jour

Card/Transcription No.: 267c-2


267, C. LID OF BOX (bent and several pieces of inlay missing)

MATERIALS OF WHICH COMPOSED

(1) Gold Quality good, much tarnished. (2) Silver Nil (3) Natural stones Nil (4) Glass Red, blue, (light & dark) green, white, black.

Has been lined with thin linen, small fragments of which remained TREATMENT: Cleaned with warm water, ammonia, and potassium cyanide.

A. L.

Card no. 267c-2 relating to Carter no. 267c
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