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A particularly rare survival from a nineteenth-century furniture shop, this cabinetmaker’s tool box is marked for the workshop of Captain Eleazar Daniels of Medway, Massachusetts, in Norfolk County, southwest of Boston. Further research can help us tell more about Captain Daniels and illuminate this personal object that represented his trade, and add to his story in the early decades of the United States. Mia has a number of fine examples of 18th and early 19th-century furniture; this acquisition significantly strengthens this area of the collection.