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Oval bandbox covered with block printed paper. Paper has pink and green rosebuds on green and white "moire" effect ground. Missing lid. Interior of bandbox is lined with plain off-white paper.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
"Very Very Old / Bandbox / 3 generations old" (handwritten)
Unknown
5 1/2 x 9 5/8 x 8 3/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Charles E. Deane, Ruthven Deane, and Miss Mary Deane Dexter
1932.926
Block Printed
Bandbox
Original
Paper
Floral
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