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Joined chest of drawers Oak and white pine with maple and walnut moldings
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Oak and white pine with maple and walnut moldings by an unidentified furniture maker in Eastern Massachusetts, late seventeenth century

106.6 cm (height) x 114.2 cm (width) x 52.5 cm (depth)

Formerly known as: Salem Witch Bureau


[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

Gen. William H. Sumner described this chest of drawers as "the Witch Bureau, from the middle drawer of which one of the Witches jumped out who was hung on Gallows Hill, in Salem." It is similar to a number of chests made in eastern Massachusetts, some of which are attributed to the Symonds workshop of Salem.