Lot 199 - Vintage Paper-Covered Dome-Top Play Trunk With Hand-Painted Designs And Pasted Caribbean Map Interior

Lot 199 - Vintage Paper-Covered Dome-Top Play Trunk With Hand-Painted Designs And Pasted Caribbean Map InteriorVintage paper covered dome top trunk with a hand painted exterior and printed Caribbean map lining inside the lid. The exterior is covered in paper decorated with repeating scroll and dot border motifs in tones of brown, rust and black arranged in panels to simulate banded trunk hardware. A decorative brass lock plate with a scalloped crown and keyhole is mounted on the front. Leather or fabric side handles are absent. The interior of the lid is lined

master of Balliol College and Regius professor of Greek in the University of Oxford

Includes a jointed die-cut “wiggly” dancing witch Halloween decoration with articulated limbs

Pre-Auction Notes: Lot 027 - Antique Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Powder Box With Woman Face Motif

The elf and leaf act as the lid and lift off to reveal a shallow storage container beneath

Cervical Region of the Vertebral Column and the Base of the Skull viewed from before

approximately 2" octagonal barrel

there is some chipping throughout

Accompanied by extensive handwritten provenance notes identifying the vantage point as the French Block (then the tallest building in Camden) and referencing local businesses such as Sim Butler’s Barbershop and the Palmer family

26th Infantry

Here is a vintage hand-painted political poster that reads

SPOTTY'S SPOT

and golden stars