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Rectangular pasteboard bandbox with lid. Box [A] and lid [B] are covered with multiple layers of block-printed wallpaper and newspaper. Uppermost layer is a white leaf and vine pattern on cinnamon ground. Interior lined with newspaper dated November 1857 and American Cosmopolitan Art Gallery painting catalogue.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
"Mrs. Harry Nicholas / Main Rd. / Flanders, N.J. / Hat boxes" (handwritten)
"Dr. du Fule, / Jr. / Essex [illegible] / send / back" (Some illegible text)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
7 x 14 x 9 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.12AB
Block Printed
Cinnamon
Original
Machine Made
Paper
Leaves
Vines
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