Tortoise shell box with metal circular corners and a square box in the center. Pink velvet on the bottom. Presented to Eleanor Roosevelt by an English woman as a token of appreciation when ER was a delegate to the UNO Conference in London in January and February 1946. FDR Library Museum Collection, MO 1968.25.40.
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