Lovely 19th Century Handmade Book-Shaped Candy Box, Hand-painted Paper and Velvet Over Board antique property sign ) And I think the

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) Primitive and visceral

mounted as found to a gold flecked Japanese rice paper

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Lovely 19th Century Handmade Book-Shaped Candy Box, Hand-painted Paper and Velvet Over Board antique property sign ) And I think theThis I believe was made as a bonbon box, with the padded interior compartment framed with paper lace. (Those doily lined Russell Stover Valentine's chocolate boxes didn't come out of nowhere!) Of course I love it for its book form, and especially that hand hand printed checkerboard patterned paper across the front (with the patterns on those tiny squares evincing pressed seamoss), perfectly bordered in embossed silver and green trim. More silver trim