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Wooden box lid with interior covered with wallpaper. Lid has two small leather hinges, has been reinforced by two wooden slats screwed to the interior, has remnants of a fabric cover or lining under a line of tacks along one side of interior. There are characters written in black pigment on the exterior of the lid. The wallpaper lining the interior is block-printed with a floral stripe pattern in brown, green and white on gray ground.
boxes (containers)
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
leather
metal
textile materials
floral patterns
stripes
Box
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
12 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1203
1840-1850 (Date of wallpaper.)
Block Printed
Lining interior of box lid
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Flowers
pin dots
stripes
foliate branches
Floral Stripe
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