Victorian Wallpaper Covered and Lined Box with Portrait and Seaweed Patterns pacific northwest which pretty definitely dates it

which pretty definitely dates it to the 1950s

and this bank is about the best I've ever seen in providing both incentive and reward for that

and quite a rare one

with cut paper trim around the top and what appears to be brass ornamentation at center

and I believe made of boxwood

Victorian Wallpaper Covered and Lined Box with Portrait and Seaweed Patterns pacific northwest which pretty definitely dates itIts the seaweed patterned, hand printed wall paper on the outside and inside of the box that really sold me on it so pretty, and so Victorian, and making me imagine it once held a collection of dried seaweed specimens carefully arranged and mounted on paper which represented an escape from sitting prettily in the parlor fanning oneself! On the inside lid is another woman, this one on the La Antiguedad de Santiago cigar box label. With a cloth hinge