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Pasteboard bandbox with lid. Bandbox [A] covered with light blue paper, no design. Lined with white paper. Lid [B] covered with block-printed wallpaper with a design of oak leaves and branches, flowers and a thorn pattern on tan ground, light blue paper underneath. Lid lined with newspaper dated January 1850. String handle on one side of box.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
9 9/16 x 13 15/16 x 12 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.6AB
1845-1850 (Newpaper lining lid dated January 1850.)
Title Bandbox Accession Number 2001.281.7AB
Title Bandbox Accession Number 2001.281.5AB
Block Printed
Polished
Tan
Original
Machine Made
Paper
Oak Leaves
Flowers
Thorns
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