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Oval pasteboard bandbox with lid, covered in wallpaper. Bandbox [a] wallpaper designs include: castle with mountain, trees, livestock scenery and landscape on blue ground. Lid [b]: paper designs include floral motif, light blue ground color. The wallpaper is block-printed.
bandboxes (containers)
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
"Danvers" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
10 3/4 x 15 3/16 x 12 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1AB
Block Printed
Bandbox
Blue
Original
Handmade
Paper
Floral
Scenic
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