Mid 19th C. Wallpaper Collar Box with Newspaper Debate About Texas Statehood and Postal Rates fraction learning Approx 3 1/2 x 5

Approx 3 1/2 x 5 1/2

I do not know the story behind this one

with various degrees of toning throughout and a tear to the last page

And this one is in really excellent condition

and smaller brass pins on either side

Mid 19th C. Wallpaper Collar Box with Newspaper Debate About Texas Statehood and Postal Rates fraction learning Approx 3 1/2 x 5I found this one along with the other I just listed, perhaps made by the same person, this one I think perhaps a few years earlier, as the newspaper on the underside features transcription of a senate debate relating to whether, now a state, Texas's debts should become the responsibility of the Federal government. (Texas became a state in 1845.) Of course I think like the think of the large, single, star like flower on one side of the box as a nod to