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Large round pasteboard bandbox (A) and lid (B) covered with wallpaper. Paper has repeating pattern of thin horizontal background stripes and pindots arranged in a geometric pattern. Paper also has framed vignettes depicting a rural countryside with deer. Block printed in green and browns on a cream ground. Bottom of box has paper reinforcing the bottom edge with a neoclassical ornament printed in greens.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
Bandbox
Unknown
18 (H), 28 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of William Sumner Appleton
1919.395AB
Block Printed
Bandbox
Cream
Original
Handmade
Paper
stripes
pin dots
rural
deer
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