Including a cowhide box with old hardware and brass tacks; a paint-decorated leather-wrapped document box with brass lock, leather handle, and tacks (4-1/2 x 12 x 7 in.); a horse hair document box having a domed hinged lid with leather banding and apron, interior papered with newsprint, having a label inside lid reading "Property of Moody Pillsbury / Alexandria, VA / Dec 1810" (5-1/2 x 12-1/2 x 6-3/4 in.); an early horse hair dome top box having leather banding with brass tacks and tacked monogram "WEB" [William Edgar Baker] (7-3/4 x 19-1/2 x 9-3/4 in.) [leather dried, missing most of hair]; an early horse hair dome top storage box with leather banding, brass lock and tacks throughout, and with side carrying handles (11 x 24-1/14 x 13 in.); plus a wallpaper-wrapped box with 1923 New York Tribune paper lining
Provenance: Descended through a third generation Bedford family and seventh generation New York family.

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