Curious 19th Century Papered Box with Interior Lion Engraving and Signed Japanese Paper Underside atlas carpet tacks box A couple of minor old

A couple of minor old fold lines on legs

and also feeling somewhat anthropomorphic

The color on this is as lush as it gets

And the threaded top half screws tightly onto the bottom to keep anything inside super secure

these include the name and location of the submitter

Curious 19th Century Papered Box with Interior Lion Engraving and Signed Japanese Paper Underside atlas carpet tacks box A couple of minor oldYou are surely smarter than I am and can identify the building at the center of the lid on this antique papered box; looks a bit like the U. S. Capital building, but not quite. I find it a lovely thing whatever the case, made all the better for the blue ink lion engraving adhered to the underside of the lid, and what I believe is Japanese woodblock printed paper on the bottom, signed in red ink characters. And then just a fragment of text along one