Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper antique american primitive pasted on top of newspaper

pasted on top of newspaper onto scrapbook page

It was personalized for "Betsy"-- these were often given as sweetheart and friendship gifts--with her name spelled out in carved and red inked dots on one side

visible image size would be 6 5/8" x 4 1/2"

There is a tiny chip along the bottom edge

I find her super compelling

Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper antique american primitive pasted on top of newspaperPure joy to find this one in Mid coast Maine this week, a 1859 wallpapered "band" box with very lovely exterior, but completely wonderful and surprising interior and underside! I can't look those pink and yellow papered grids and stripes without thinking of Froebel kindergarten cut and woven paper works, which it would have pre dated a bit in the U. S., and also of course of quilts, and of 20th century modern abstract painting just glorious. And it