Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper lock box it called to me in

it called to me in a special way--but I know I'm not alone

There is some aging/darkening to the paper (consistent overall

Another one of these lovelies

but even more so a good found face

smiling ink pens on the attack

Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper lock box it called to me inPure 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