19th Century Dome Top Box Covered with Early Wallpaper and More, Inside and Out unique hand-painted lacquer box is to my eye perfect

is to my eye perfect

right down to the spindly shadows of bare branches that seem to be encroaching a bit ominously from either side

I just fell in love with the gorgeous physicality of this leather wallet/notebook

crisp with wonderfully strong color

6 3/4” x 2 1/8” x 3/4” and in very good

19th Century Dome Top Box Covered with Early Wallpaper and More, Inside and Out unique hand-painted lacquer box is to my eye perfectI find this box very beautiful, found in New Hampshire last week, and certainly of New England, earlyish 19th century in origin I believe, though with some papered additions along the way. It is a bit hard to know where one layer of papering ends and another begins it looks to me like the paper showing on the bottom half came after the (very lovely) hand printed wallpaper on the top and sides based on visible layering of the two in a few spots. With a