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Oval bandbox (A) with lid (B). Pastoral scene depicting a couple: woman has an armload of fruit and man leans on shovel. Another woman waters flowers with watering vessel. Printed in two greens, white, pink on a blue ground.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
Bandbox
520
1926.860
Unknown
United States
12 3/4 x 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of William Sumner Appleton
1926.860AB
1828-1830 (newspaper lining dated 1828)
United States
Block Printed
Bandbox
Blue
Original
Handmade
Paper
flowers
trees
fruit
shovel
couple
jug
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