Don't Forget Me, Brilliantly Colored, Beautiful Condition 1820s-30s American Sewing Box with Stencil Painted Sentiment mid-century Japanese print on wood panel

on wood panel

I thing these are interesting

A bit too short to be a pencil box (for unsharpened pencils at least)

base has a diameter of 3 1/4" d

silver and black lacquer

Don't Forget Me, Brilliantly Colored, Beautiful Condition 1820s-30s American Sewing Box with Stencil Painted Sentiment mid-century Japanese print on wood panelI've had one other brilliantly colorful papered sewing box akin to this one, with stencil painted velvet pin cushion at center of the lid, and have come to understand how precious they are, c. 1820s 30s this one reading Don't Forget Me, and but for a bit of loss to the red paint of the final E, pretty much perfectly preserved. I find the color just electric, and terrifically modern feeling too, with block printed pattern in silver decorating the