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Pasteboard bandbox with lid. Box [A] and lid [B] covered with a block-printed gray geometric design of slim columns with pointed edges repeating in a fence-like pattern on white ground. Larger green and brown columns on either side of box. Lid rim papered in spiral pattern, pink ground. Interior of box lined with white paper. Underside of box and lid, unpapered. Visible stitching along bottom edges.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
2001.289
2002.63.9ab
Unknown
United States
9 13/16 x 14 1/16 x 12 11/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.9AB
Block Printed
Bandbox
White
Original
Paper
Column
Spiral
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