A George III Period Folk Art Painted Book Box c.1800 sub-Macabre- Medicine white and blue horizontal stripes

white and blue horizontal stripes with three smaller flags center

with original fitted glass stoppers

and while the term now has little ethnographic use

half figures are used but when they are to be placed on the corners they are carved complete and afterward cut out in the back to fit”

rope twist conforming stretcher and four drop rings to the frieze

A George III Period Folk Art Painted Book Box c.1800 sub-Macabre- Medicine white and blue horizontal stripesOrigin: English Period: George III Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 Height: 2 Width: 7. 75 Depth: 4. 5 The folk art crafted hinged box in the form of a book, retaining the original green and red painted surfaces, now beautifully timeworn, opening to reveal a vacant inner storage compartment, and surviving from George III period England. The box is in good all round condition, with no cracks or damages, with the painted surface un meddled with, and