Civil War Era Large Wallpaper Box with Newspaper Lining vintage rug stable and not brittle

stable and not brittle

I didn't know what this curious ball was when I found it

perfectly framed by the cutout window in the lid of the coffin

I believe whisk brooms/brushes of this sort of construction are generally referred to "turkey wing"--though the bristles on most are more angled

Fainter is an incised mark for T

Civil War Era Large Wallpaper Box with Newspaper Lining vintage rug stable and not brittleNot 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