c. 1840s American Wallpaper Band Box with Decoupage in Glorious Yellow and Blue antique pape and then given beads for

and then given beads for eyes and a pink mouth

flowers or fruit

or super eccentic—this Grueby tile being

in Portsmouth

as if akin to Spring Grove

c. 1840s American Wallpaper Band Box with Decoupage in Glorious Yellow and Blue antique pape and then given beads forI 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