Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper lock box 1930s I believe

1930s I believe

I've always got an eye out for puzzles and games that double as cool sculptural objects

smiling ink pens on the attack

but even more so a good found face

but where I found the prices on early hand-done works on paper of this ilk very very steep

Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper lock box 1930s I believePure 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