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A wooden oval bandbox covered with block printed floral wallpaper, pink and white flowers with green leaves on a blue ground. Lined with wallpaper dating to 1845.
bandboxes (containers)
accessories
pine (wood)
spruce (wood)
wallpapers
pine (wood)
Spruce
Pine
Wallpaper
Bandbox
On a paper label on the underside of the lid is: Warranted Nailed Band Boxes. Manufactured by Hannah Davis, East Jaffery, NH.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Davis, Hannah (Maker)
Jaffrey, NH, USA
5.75 x 9.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.469
New Hampshire (United States)
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