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    "localId": "119323",
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    "title": "Cann",
    "date": "1747",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.); with handle: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.); without handle: 9.9 cm (3 7/8 in.)",
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    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "engraved within reserve on front, opposite handle: \"A GIFT/From some of The/PRINCIPALL/ Officers in the regiment/of BOSTON to/Mr Adjutant/HUNT/1747.\"  Above the reserve: \"A Legacy left by Capt JABEZ HUNT to John Leverett Junr 1763.\""
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    ],
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        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"A Collection of Early American Silver Gift of Hollis French.\"<em> The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>27, no. 9 (November 1940): 131-142",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 134",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140882"
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        {
            "citation": "Johnston, Phillip M. <em>Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.",
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