Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper antique american primitive This etching

This etching

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

visible image size would be 6 5/8" x 4 1/2"

There is a tiny chip along the bottom edge

I find her super compelling

Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper antique american primitive This etchingPure 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