Wallpaper
- Object Name:
- Wallpaper
- Object ID:
- 1986.094.03
- Date:
- 1820-1850
- Description:
- Box cover. Thick board, covered with wallpaper on outer surface. Engraved reward of merit on inner surface. Wallpaper: green and orange with gray background. Vertical panels consisting of five distinct bands: left to right - a band of green and brown leaves edged by a five-part stripe (left to right - gray, dark green, black, dark green, light green). A wide band of stylized shells in orange and leaves in dark and light green which cast medium gray shadows onto the lighter gray background. Band three has alternating green and orange balls nestled in an architectural motif of light and dark green. The two succeeding bands are the same but with the orange balls lining up against the green balls and vice versa. Between bands three and four, and four and five there is a stripe of light gray where the balls do not permit the bands to touch. Reward of merit is engraved with haying scene and border of grape leaves and clusters. It is imprinted "REWARD OF MERIT / The bearer [signed] 'Miss E. J. Sanborn' receives this / as a token of my approbation, [signed] 'M. O. Fifield'"
- Material:
- Wood
Paper - Dimensions:
- H-10 W-9.4 D-0.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Reward of merit was presented to Eva J. Sanborn of Epping, NH, so box probably belonged to her.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Sanborn, Eva J.
- Subjects:
- Rewards of merit
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