Civil War Era Large Wallpaper Box with Newspaper Lining dream drawing tolerance and forbearance

tolerance and forbearance

The sting on the back will work to raise both arms with a little effort

12" x 5 1/4"

and with sweet hand-painted yellow-green details on the decorative pieces on the front and on the sides

A little wear to the box but still looks great

Civil War Era Large Wallpaper Box with Newspaper Lining dream drawing tolerance and forbearanceNot perfect, but at 150+ years and made of paper, I'd say it's held up pretty well. I love these old wallpaper hat boxes for the lovely hand printed wallpaper, of course, and for their construction, and perhaps especially for their newspaper linings, which tell all sorts of stories about the time when they were made and about their maker, too. This one, which includes a date of 1868, is lined in papers from Boston and Portland, ME, which along with