Lot 029 - Antique Cream Celluloid Collar Box With Embossed Portrait Of Woman And Floral Decoration, 4-3/4" H

Lot 029 - Antique Cream Celluloid Collar Box With Embossed Portrait Of Woman And Floral Decoration, 4-3/4" HAntique cream celluloid collar box featuring an embossed portrait bust of a woman with hair in an updo and lace collar surrounded by raised floral and foliate motifs. The interior is lined with worn and discolored cream silk and yellowed paper. The paper covered base shows edge wear and bears a pencil inscription reading 29 2 38; a faint patent stamp is present but illegible against the patterned paper. Exhibits chips to the celluloid, including on

Pre-Auction Notes: note: chat gpt was used to determine the translations of these labels

It bears the lithographed signature of artist Henry Raleigh

on official letterhead of the New England Homestead

holes in canvas

including two small holes in the lining of the jacket

Here is a great antique cabinet card photograph of an ornate funeral flower arrangement in mourning of a man identified only as "Father

without the full andiron assembly

which I will try to accurately represent in the pictures

or breaks in the ceramic

along with gold painted filigree throughout

and please understand that more pieces of gesso may break off during shipping

and 24 frame per second frame rates