box for spermaceti candles

MERCHANDISING TOOLS & EQUIPMENT
Candle Shop
USA, MA, Nantucket
Circa 1978
0.88 x 15.38 x 0

Box which held spermaceti candles 98.43.2; box is cardboard, covered with white adhesive paper; cover has lighthouse and sperm whale printed in black; printed at center "SPERMACETI / CANDLES/ from/ NANTUCKET ISLAND, MASS."; printed on side of box "These Candles made at/ THE CANDLE SHOP/ Nantucket Island, Mass." Candles probably made circa 1978 from remainder supply of spermaceti powder.


1998.43.1

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