Civil War Era Large Wallpaper Box with Newspaper Lining mid-century wooden toy I have long wanted to

I have long wanted to find a painting on an old painter's palette

little dog with stick legs on leash beside him trying hard to keep up

extremely durable

I just love these two

First detail (2nd image) was shot in natural light and shows color most accurately

Civil War Era Large Wallpaper Box with Newspaper Lining mid-century wooden toy I have long wanted toNot perfect, but at 150+ years and made of paper, I'd say it's held up pretty well. I love these old wallpaper hat boxes for the lovely hand printed wallpaper, of course, and for their construction, and perhaps especially for their newspaper linings, which tell all sorts of stories about the time when they were made and about their maker, too. This one, which includes a date of 1868, is lined in papers from Boston and Portland, ME, which along with