c. 1840s American Wallpaper Band Box with Decoupage in Glorious Yellow and Blue McLoughlin Golden Eagle Anagrams Small but with substantial weight

Small but with substantial weight for its size

something about the minimalism of it

I really like how the  portrait painted on the face of the cigar box looks as if preparing for their secrets to be revealed when one opens the box

Wilis’ name and the year 1883 appears on one page of the sketcbook

c. 1840s American Wallpaper Band Box with Decoupage in Glorious Yellow and Blue McLoughlin Golden Eagle Anagrams Small but with substantial weightI paid a fair bit for this one, and will be very glad to keep it for myself I simply could not resist that yellow, or that blue, and even more so the two of them together. (I have not at all amped up the color here.) Unusual in my experience to find one with decoupage elements on the exterior, too, which I find very charming this is American, c. 1840s I believe (with a stars and stripes shield at the center and en eagle too) but someone was also