19th C. Dresser Box with Wallpaper Framed Mirror and Hand-painted Print of Deer carved bone seagull pin with its patch of colorful

with its patch of colorful flame stitching at bottom right

and I believe the box is pewter

There is one rough spot along one edge of one end--minor and I don't think detracting

all the more so for being done on a lined examination booklet

Two eyes  were simply carved out

19th C. Dresser Box with Wallpaper Framed Mirror and Hand-painted Print of Deer carved bone seagull pin with its patch of colorfulThe plain exterior of this old box does little to hint at its charming interior, and I like it all the more for that contradiction, as if made just for the personal delight of its user and no one else. On the interior of the lid is a mirror framed in three different wallpapers pink and green and gold and white; and then this wonderful print of a deer on the bottom with paper lace borders, not just hand colored but significantly embellished with