19th Century Folk Art Dome-Top Wallpaper Travel Chest, 1878

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Enclosed inside is an 1878 handwritten Victorian paper receipt or account slip detailing a transaction involving Harriett Meakin and George … Read more Enclosed inside is an 1878 handwritten Victorian paper receipt or account slip detailing a transaction involving Harriett Meakin and George Gilson.

Date: Dated February 13, 1878, with a reference to a "New Cloth box" and a date of December 25, 1878.

Content: It records a financial exchange or delivery addressed to Miss Harriett Meakin from Geo Gilson, noted with columnar accounting lines and calculation markings.

Format: Written in traditional iron gall ink on lined ledger paper, typical of late 19th-century domestic or mercantile record-keeping. See less