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Tall, cyliindrical pasteboard bandbox or muff box. Covered with an uncut piece of top and bottom borders - the top being wider than the bottom. The background is a stylized, neoclassical pattern of sprigs and palmettes on top is flocked, scrolling foliage and flocked bands of foliage and medallions at the top and bottom. Block printed in aqua with blue flock overpainted with aqua, dark blue and black on a light blue ground.
bandboxes (containers)
Bandbox
613
Unknown
France
17 3/4 x 13 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Elizabeth A. Huebener
1940.410
"Wallpaper in New England," pg. 133-134, fig. 30-3.
France
Title Accession Number 1971.187.3
Title Accession Number 1922.391
Block Printed
Flocked
Bandbox
Lt. Blue
Original
Handmade
Border
Laid
Paper
medallions
scrolling foliage
stripes
palmettes
sprigs
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