Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper 1970s art poster with a little paint loss

with a little paint loss here and there

which tapers to a very tiny waist

but which could be a package she is about to fly away to deliver

after which improved transportation allowed them to travel home more frequently

and very sweetly imperfect close up

Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper 1970s art poster with a little paint lossPure 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