Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper lock box I've always got an eye

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

but useful now for housing all sorts of small things

it called to me in a special way--but I know I'm not alone

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

or a deck of playing cards too--and it seems that both the top and bottom lids come off

Hidden Delights: My Favorite Folk Art Wallpaper Band Box Ever, 1859 Newspaper lock box I've always got an eyePure 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