Delight-filled Discovery: John Wanamaker Antique Wax Flower Maker's Box with Pigments and Many Envelopes Filled with Cut Paper Templates (Read!) antique treen barrel box and the sides are decorated

and the sides are decorated

The letters are in relief and painted yellow

but when the aesthetics are just right I can't resist

which I think this one very much is

New York from the mid-1880s to 1902

Delight-filled Discovery: John Wanamaker Antique Wax Flower Maker's Box with Pigments and Many Envelopes Filled with Cut Paper Templates (Read!) antique treen barrel box and the sides are decoratedThis is way cool, and we're definitely not going to come across another like it anytime soon, or ever. It is a distinctly Victorian, 1870s to be precise, kit for making wax flowers (of the sort to be placed inside "parlour domes" and given pride of place in the Victorian parlor). Included in the box is a dozen envelopes, each labeled by hand with the name of one or more flowers, and each containing one or several folded paper packets inside of which