Civil War Era Large Wallpaper Box with Newspaper Lining vintage rug spanning 1st grade to high

spanning 1st grade to high school

stable and not brittle

I really love the smiling faces on these two and the way she seems to lean a bit against him

the fun of language

Civil War Era Large Wallpaper Box with Newspaper Lining vintage rug spanning 1st grade to highNot 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