Rectangular pasteboard box without a lid. Covered in a French, striped paper. Alternating green and white stripes are embellished with stylized leaf motifs printed in grey and dark green.
bandboxes (containers)
Bandbox
Fowler House Main House,
848
Abel Hersey
Unknown
France
9 x 12 x 7 3/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Museum Accession
1966.138
"Wallpaper in New England," pg. 126-128, fig. 28.6.
France
Title Accession Number 1911.111
Block Printed
Bandbox
White
Original
Handmade
Wove
Paper
stripes
scroll
stylized foliage
palmette
oak leaves
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