Mid 19th C. Wallpaper Collar Box with Newspaper Debate About Texas Statehood and Postal Rates antique doll quilt Great on the desk as

Great on the desk as a paperweight

What a feeling of life force in this woman

overall good condition and better in person

The lines would have provided guides for writing

12 x 5 1/16 and in very good condition

Mid 19th C. Wallpaper Collar Box with Newspaper Debate About Texas Statehood and Postal Rates antique doll quilt Great on the desk asI found this one along with the other I just listed, perhaps made by the same person, this one I think perhaps a few years earlier, as the newspaper on the underside features transcription of a senate debate relating to whether, now a state, Texas's debts should become the responsibility of the Federal government. (Texas became a state in 1845.) Of course I think like the think of the large, single, star like flower on one side of the box as a nod to