Victorian Wallpaper Covered and Lined Box with Portrait and Seaweed Patterns pacific northwest and I believe made of

and I believe made of boxwood

with wonderful wide open mouth

but would be a handy thing to stash all of one's stuff inside in order to move from table to table

with cut paper trim around the top and what appears to be brass ornamentation at center

Victorian Wallpaper Covered and Lined Box with Portrait and Seaweed Patterns pacific northwest and I believe made ofIts the seaweed patterned, hand printed wall paper on the outside and inside of the box that really sold me on it so pretty, and so Victorian, and making me imagine it once held a collection of dried seaweed specimens carefully arranged and mounted on paper which represented an escape from sitting prettily in the parlor fanning oneself! On the inside lid is another woman, this one on the La Antiguedad de Santiago cigar box label. With a cloth hinge