AMERICAN, PROBABLY MID-19TH CENTURY

The festoon papers covering the sides of this box first became fahionable European imports to America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the drapery swag with roses was in production circa 1830-1835. The paper featuring Andrew Jackson was engraved after the Thomas Sully portrait of the President with his horse and sword and was not in production until circa 1840. For further information, see Carlisle, Hat Boxes and Band Boxes in the Shelburne Museum (Shelburne, Vermont, 1960), pp. 100 and 191.