Victorian Wallpaper Covered and Lined Box with Portrait and Seaweed Patterns kid's cat drawing might inspire hallucinatory

might inspire hallucinatory

near-horizontal branch coming in from the right is of a very old Oak

I believe it is quite an old painting

Still firmly attached to its metal post and perfectly ready to stick back in the yard somewhere

Victorian Wallpaper Covered and Lined Box with Portrait and Seaweed Patterns kid's cat drawing might inspire hallucinatoryIts the seaweed patterned, hand printed wall paper on the outside and inside of the box that really sold me on it so pretty, and so Victorian, and making me imagine it once held a collection of dried seaweed specimens carefully arranged and mounted on paper which represented an escape from sitting prettily in the parlor fanning oneself! On the inside lid is another woman, this one on the La Antiguedad de Santiago cigar box label. With a cloth hinge