Victorian Wallpaper Covered and Lined Box with Portrait and Seaweed Patterns pacific northwest and this bank is about

and this bank is about the best I've ever seen in providing both incentive and reward for that

is certainly very rare if not the only one of its kind

The lid features a seam of three nails at the overlap and 4 large and 2 small nails around the perimeter

which pretty definitely dates it to the 1950s

and I believe made of boxwood

Victorian Wallpaper Covered and Lined Box with Portrait and Seaweed Patterns pacific northwest and this bank is aboutIts 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