Antique Edwardian Candy Box Insert Blue Plumed Hat Lady Chromolithograph Printed in Germany NOS Belle Epoque Ephemera 🥫 gift_for_citrus_collector Reeve Schley

Reeve Schley

if they ever existed

is to feel that particular dime-store electricity all over again — the brightness of the lithograph

lost under a couch cushion by month's end

Antique Edwardian Candy Box Insert Blue Plumed Hat Lady Chromolithograph Printed in Germany NOS Belle Epoque Ephemera 🥫 gift_for_citrus_collector Reeve SchleyWhat did a lady find waiting inside a fine box of Edwardian chocolates? Lift the lid of a luxury confectioner's box from the early years of the twentieth century and, before you ever reached the sweets, a little printed beauty was there to greet you. This is one of those greeters an Edwardian candy box presentation insert, a decorative card that sat over the confections as a small work of art, meant to be admired, lifted out, and very often kept. More