Bandbox

John Perkins • 1835

Bandbox, 1835

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Small pasteboard bandbox covered with wallpaper border pattern, pieced so one horizontal border band encircles bottom and a narrow edging strip covers rim of lid. Stylized architectural leaf band in browns and yellows, and band of stripings. Principal banding: on dark green background, green leaves and white camellias with pink and yellow centers, in continuous band. Strip of unfaded color under lid. Remnants of a different floral sidewall paper with a yellow ground around edge on box bottom. Block-printed paper, pasteboard support