Antique Edwardian Candy Box Insert Green Silk Hat Powdered Wig Lady Chromolithograph NOS Gainsborough Portrait Ephemera 🥫 1920s_advertising_label never sold

never sold

It was made to be sold as a toy and worn for fun

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Weyman built something that most small-batch producers of his era never managed: genuine scale

And it makes a genuinely thoughtful gift for anyone with ties to New York City

Antique Edwardian Candy Box Insert Green Silk Hat Powdered Wig Lady Chromolithograph NOS Gainsborough Portrait Ephemera 🥫 1920s_advertising_label never soldWho was the beauty in the powdered wig, and why did she grace a box of Edwardian sweets? Some faces look backward even in their own time. The lady on this Edwardian candy box presentation insert is one of them a young woman of the early 1900s dressed in the powder and silk of a full century before, gazing out from an oval as if she'd stepped straight from an eighteenth century portrait gallery. She was printed to lie across the top of a fine box of