Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper antique american primitive There is a tiny chip

There is a tiny chip along the bottom edge

but might guess that the drawing is a portrait of the recipient and the object of Raoul S's affection

making one think of beautiful geometric solid block sets of the same era

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

it's about 9" wide

Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper antique american primitive There is a tiny chipPure 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