Mid 19th C. Wallpaper Collar Box with Newspaper Debate About Texas Statehood and Postal Rates antique doll quilt with a bit of collage

with a bit of collage on top

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

overall good condition and better in person

12 x 5 1/16 and in very good condition

The lines would have provided guides for writing

Mid 19th C. Wallpaper Collar Box with Newspaper Debate About Texas Statehood and Postal Rates antique doll quilt with a bit of collageI 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