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Pasteboard bandbox missing bottom and lid. Box is in unraveled condition. Box covered with two layers of wallpaper. First layer is a blue column pattern. The second layer of paper is block-printed with a sixteen sided medallion with floral center pattern, also blue meandering floral stripes and fan shapes on tan ground. The interior of the box is lined with Boston newspaper dated 1837.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
7 5/8 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.29
Block Printed
Original
Handmade
Border
Paper
floral
medallion
striped
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