Object Number: TC3283

Collection: Social History

Object Name: box

Description: Box, wooden with a brown leather embossed cover and a brown tape tie ribbon which would have threaded through the lid cover. It is lined with paper printed with a black and blue diamond pattern. The box would have held Fry's letters patent. There is a strip of paper with handwritten copperplate, 'Letters patent granted to Joseph Storrs Fry, May 7th 1795'.