Victorian Wallpaper Covered and Lined Box with Portrait and Seaweed Patterns circus leader her thigh terminates in a

her thigh terminates in a flat surface

and there is some lacquer loss to the underside of the box

The surface could I think be wiped cleaner if desired

and then the larger pocket below could hold a a stash of match boxes or match books

(I keep thinking of Lichtenstein's ben-day dots when I look at them

Victorian Wallpaper Covered and Lined Box with Portrait and Seaweed Patterns circus leader her thigh terminates in aIts 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