Box

Box

Date

c.1940

Description

Box used for shipping seashells from Australia to New York and then to Milton for use in the button-making industry. "New York" is stencilled on one end of the box and 'Australia" is stencilled on the other. Button making flouriahed in Milton between the late 1920s and the late 1950s.

Provenance

Owned by the family of Donald Carey.