Civil War Era Large Wallpaper Box with Newspaper Lining dream drawing some scratches

some scratches

15 7/8” w x 11 1/8” t x 1 1/16” and in very good condition

A little wear to the box but still looks great

12 3/4" x 10 1/2" x 9" t

and with sweet hand-painted yellow-green details on the decorative pieces on the front and on the sides

Civil War Era Large Wallpaper Box with Newspaper Lining dream drawing some scratchesNot perfect, but at 150+ years and made of paper, I'd say it's held up pretty well. I love these old wallpaper hat boxes for the lovely hand printed wallpaper, of course, and for their construction, and perhaps especially for their newspaper linings, which tell all sorts of stories about the time when they were made and about their maker, too. This one, which includes a date of 1868, is lined in papers from Boston and Portland, ME, which along with