Early-Mid 19th C. Wallpapered Domed Trunk with Fantastic Blue and Newspaper Interior apple cutting board with color very vivid

with color very vivid

this would be fairly usable as a ruler for smallish things

this would look great in all sorts of contexts

losing the toe of one foot along the way and acquiring what look like some white paint spatters on one arm

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Early-Mid 19th C. Wallpapered Domed Trunk with Fantastic Blue and Newspaper Interior apple cutting board with color very vividThat blue! My favorite color on the planet, it just makes me swoon, so no way could I resist this trunk. I think the trunk itselfmade of poplar I believedates to the early 1800s, but I think the wallpaper is mid 19th, because the newspaper lining, I believe added at the same time, shows a date of 1850. (On the back side there are remnants of what appears to be an even earlier wallpaper.) Clearly its been around, with the lock removed and plenty of