A chest, purportedly one of the many tossed into the Boston Harbor during the ‘Boston Tea Party’, has been sold to the operators of the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum, for an undisclosed amount. The chest, one of the two chests known to have survived the revolution, was picked up from the waters of Boston Harbor by a young John Robinson. John Robinson’s descendants living in Texas, found the chest in the attic, and decided to sell it to the museum for preservation of the historic piece. The chest will be kept in a bank vault while the museum, which was ravaged by a fire, is being rebuilt.