Small leather-covered wooden box with hinged and locking lid. Exterior is decorated with leather straps and metal tacks. The box contains fragments of wallpaper that once lined the interior. The paper is in poor condition but appears to be block-printed in green and white in a stripe and medallion pattern. The paper appears to have no ground and is handmade.
boxes (containers)
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
leather
stripes
Box
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
3 1/2 x 8 x 5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.551
Block Printed
box lining
Turquoise
Original
Handmade
Wove
Paper
medallions
pin dots
geometric
Stripe
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