Original American Wallpaper and Decoupage Band Box
United States: 1830. Very Good. Item #47376
United States: ca. 1830. Original blue and yellow hand-made paper-covered band box (29x25x10cm) decorated with decoupage. Margins worn with exposure of original stitching beneath, some of the decoupage a bit dulled and starting to chip, else a Very Good, still bright example.
Beautiful American band box decorated with sixteen pictorial pieces of decoupage, including patriotic American and fashionable French imagery, crests, and book illustrations. Date based in part on the presence of a woodcut illustration of the steamboat the Franklin, which was launched in 1827, " the paramount Lake Champlain steamer in both luxury and engineering" (from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum blog).
Price: $650.00