REVOLUTIONARY WAR 2ND IN COMMAND GENERAL ARTEMAS WARD OWNED TRUNK BOX NOT SWORD

PRESERVING AMERICAN HISTORY, AND TREASURES.  REVOLUTIONARY WAR 2ND IN COMMAND GENERAL ARTEMAS WARD OWNED TRUNK DOCUMENT BOX  Leather-covered wooden trunk document box, 6 1/2 x 16 x 9 3/8 inches, by family tradition used by General Artemas Ward during the Revolutionary War and subsequently, as a member of Congress. The leather features extensive tooled and gilded decoration throughout, including a framed diamond surrounding the hinged, steel carrying handle on the lid, which is divided into 4 quadrants, each having a British royal crown / GR device stamped into its center. There is a lock on the front of the device, consisting of a hinged clasp and a keyed plate, both of steel (originally japanned). The box is lined with sheets from some folio-sized, 18th century religious tract, laid down over an earlier hand-painted wall paper. The box is extensively documented and is the title object featured in a 1910 article, "Found in an Old Trunk", on the Artemas Ward Family artifact collection