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Pasteboard bandbox with wooden lid. Bandbox [A] covered with a block-printed wallpaper with an orange floral medallion on a bed of scattered wheat stalks, blue ground. Interior lined with with cream paper. Visible stitching along bottom edge. Lid [B] is fragmented, covered in a floral pattern paper with blue ground. Box has string handle on one side.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
"15" (Plus illegible numbers)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
12 3/8 x 18 3/4 x 15 3/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.8AB
Title Wall Fragment Accession Number 1956.M25
Title Book Cover Accession Number 2001.281.593
Block Printed
Bandbox
Blue
Original
Handmade
Wove
Paper
Floral Medallion
Wheat
Medallion
Floral
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