19th Century Dome Top Box Covered with Early Wallpaper and More, Inside and Out travel photo but no metal-smithing background--so they

but no metal-smithing background--so they taught themselves

Of course I could not resist the beautiful calligraphic loops just inside this speller just shy of 200 years old

with the horsehair woven through what seems likely to be linen cloth (visible just above the scalloped edge of the pink cloth)

and with some supplies found still in it

19th Century Dome Top Box Covered with Early Wallpaper and More, Inside and Out travel photo but no metal-smithing background--so theyI find this box very beautiful, found in New Hampshire last week, and certainly of New England, earlyish 19th century in origin I believe, though with some papered additions along the way. It is a bit hard to know where one layer of papering ends and another begins it looks to me like the paper showing on the bottom half came after the (very lovely) hand printed wallpaper on the top and sides based on visible layering of the two in a few spots. With a