Mid 19th C. Wallpaper Collar Box with Newspaper Debate About Texas Statehood and Postal Rates antique doll quilt overall good condition and better

overall good condition and better in person

I do believe 19th century American

The box measures 10" in diameter (the plates measure just shy of that) and 2

3 1/2" tall x 3 1/2" wide

Mid 19th C. Wallpaper Collar Box with Newspaper Debate About Texas Statehood and Postal Rates antique doll quilt overall good condition and betterI 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